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Billboard to warn of dangers of cheese A physicians group has taken out an ad on a billboard on Highway 41 that features the Grim Reaper wearing a cheesehead and warning against the dangers of eating cheese. This may hit a little too close to home in America's Dairyland. A physicians group has taken out an ad on a billboard on Highway 41 that features the Grim Reaper wearing a cheesehead and warning against the dangers of eating cheese. According to the Green Bay Press Gazette, the ad, paid for by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, will go up...

My husband bought me some of my favorite soup, Campbell's Cream of Potato. My mouth got all ready and I sipped the first spoon. I spit it back in the bowl. It tasted TERRIBLE! I thought it was spoiled. Nope. Now! With Sea Salt Added! If I wanted sea salt I'd go float in the ocean! I just discovered that they've done the same to Vegetarian Vegetable. No more Campbell's soup for me. And I wrote them to tell them where they can stick their sea salt! I don't buy Healthy Choice soups because they taste awful. So they are...

Ban Butter To Save Thousands Of Lives, Says Heart Surgeon By SEAN POULTER 18th January 2010 Shyam Kolvekar is a leading heart surgeon [Pic in URL] Butter should be banned to protect the nation's health, according to a leading heart surgeon. Shyam Kolvekar says only radical action can save growing numbers of young adults from heart attacks and clogged arteries. Warning of the dangers of other foods high in saturated fat, he advises people to eat less red meat, take low-fat milk and switch to olive and sunflower oil. Saturated fat is blamed for a third of the 200,000 premature...

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has added Chinese food to its “do not eat” list. Citing Chinese food’s high caloric and sodium content, a CSPI spokesman warned diners to cut back on its consumption. A plate of General Tso’s chicken, for example, has 1,300 calories and 3,200 milligrams of sodium. This is 40 percent more sodium and 50 percent calories than necessary for an average meal. “Our basic ‘rule-of-thumb’ at the Center is ‘if it’s tasty it’s nasty,’” said Bonnie Liebman, nutrition director of CSPI. “If you insist on eating at a Chinese restaurant we recommend...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- For more than a year, some children at North Side Elementary School learned about the health dangers posed by candy and empty snacks. So when Monique Manigat's gifted class of fourth- and fifth-graders was asked to sell chocolate bars, potato chips and hard candy to fund class trips, the 19 children decided that would be hypocritical and refused. "If they tell us to don't eat junk food and then after school we sell it, that disobeys what they said," said Daphnie Auguste, the 10-year-old ringleader. She hasn't raised one dollar toward her personal $455 goal. "I'm...

Duxbury schools banish birthday cupcakes By Herald staff Friday, June 4, 2004 Birthday kids at Duxbury's Chandler School next fall will get dragon stickers, special seat covers and starred birthday sashes they can wear all day. But no cupcakes - they're bad for you. The tradition of cupcakes at school birthday parties died last month when the School Committee unanimously ratified a new handbook that redefines the way students celebrate in class. ``I'm a little saddened,'' said Chandler parent Nancy Krahmer, who favors healthy eating but mourns the loss of the childhood ritual. School officials made the change, part of...

<p>As a strong supporter of Mayor Bloomberg's continued efforts to inoculate New York's best and brightest from the idiocy of its worst and dumbest - tobacco abusers - I feel compelled to state the obvious: The no-smoking laws are here to stay ("Bloomy's Bugaboo," Editorial, Nov. 8), whether you like it or not. Indeed, those laws need to be expanded and strengthened.</p>

SAN FRANCISCO - Kids in California may have to give up their Oreos, if a lawsuit filed by a San Francisco public interest lawyer is successful. The lawsuit, filed last week in Marin County superior court, seeks a ban on the black and white cookies, arguing the trans fats that make the filling creamy and the cookie crisp are too dangerous for children to eat. Stephen Joseph said he filed the suit against Nabisco, the maker of Oreos, after reading articles that said the artificial fat is hidden in most packaged food, though consumers have no way of knowing. The...