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Mind-Boggling Nutrition Guidance? You Betcha'!

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 07.11.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Processed Food, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Healthy Living Health News, Katz, Onqi, Nutrition Profiling, National Consumers League, Supermarkets, Nuval, Diet, Kelly Brownell, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Groceries, Nutrition Guidance, Fmi, Nutrition, Dr. David Katz, Consumers, Food Industry, Nutrients, Public Health, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

The National Consumers League, claiming to represent consumers' interests, issued a press release this week announcing they had submitted a complaint to the FDA, asking the agency to banish NuVal from the nation's supermarkets.

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Using PR Playbook to Keep Us in the Dark About Health Insurance Coverage

Wendell Potter | Posted 02.04.2012 | Politics
Read More: Grocery Manufacturers Association, Obamacare, Ahip, Health Care Reform, Health Care, America's Health Insurance Plans, Wall Street Journal, Kaiser Family Foundation, Politics News
Wendell Potter

If you wonder why the health insurance industry has to set up front groups and secretly funnel cash to industry-funded coalitions to influence public policy, take a look at the most recent results of the Kaiser Family Foundation's monthly Health Tracking Poll.

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Food Safety Bill Stalled By Tom Coburn, Small Farm Interests

The New York Times | GARDINER HARRIS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Agriculture, Public Health, Salmonella, Fda, Food Safety Bill, Peanuts, House, Tom Coburn, Eggs, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Senate, Food Poisoning, Industry, Farmers, Spinach, Margaret Hamburg, Inspection, Politics News

But the Senate has still not acted to fix many of the flaws in the nation's food safety system -- although a bill to do so has broad bipartisan suppor...

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PepsiCo CEO: Saint or Sinner When It Comes to Our Health?

Pooja R. Mottl | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living, Mindfully21.com, Mindfully21, American Beverage Association, Soda Tax, Indra Nooyi, Carbon Footprint, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Food Politics, Anti-Soda Ad Campaign, Pooja Mottl, Pepsico, Obesity Health, Childhood Obesity, Michelle Obama Obesity, Health Care Reform, Health Tips, Child Obesity, Pepsico Sugar, Stevia, Video, Healthy Living News
Pooja R. Mottl

A decade ago, getting food behemoths to even think about supporting healthier fare was a very tough task. Yet today we're seeing a new wave both in government and business toward "healthy living policies."

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Obesity Initiative Sends Food Companies Scrambling

Marion Nestle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Food Companies, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama Childhood Obesity, Food Politics, Childhood Obesity, Food, Obesity Initiative, Obesity, Green News
Marion Nestle

Food companies wanting to do something to prevent childhood obesity are in a bind. Preventing obesity means staying active, eating real, not processed...

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Michelle Obama WOWS At Grocery Manufacturers Forum (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Grocery Manufacturers Association, Michelle Obama L'Wren Scott, L'Wren Scott, Michelle Obama, Michele Obama, Michelle Obama Style, Obama Grocery, Style News

*Scroll down for updated photos* The first lady welcomed spring sartorially--and incorporated a few of her favorite clothing features--in a sleevel...

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The New Policy Battlefield: All Eyes On Coca-Cola And Social Media PR

Martin Luz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Sweet Surprise, Sugar-Tax, Glover Park Group, Corn-Refiners-Association, Social Media Pr, Lobbying, Americans Against Food Taxes, American Beverage Association, Sucrose, Sweeteners, Coke, Obesity, Fructose, Social Media Marketing, Sugar, The Coca Cola Company, Social Media, Coca-Cola, Robert Lustig, Metabolic Syndrome, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Glucose, Alan Aragon, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Business News
Martin Luz

If you want to see how future national policy wars will be fought, keep your eye on Coca-Cola and the American Beverage Association. Over the next few years sugar will become the new tobacco.

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A Moon Mission For Safer Plastics?

Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Epa, Toxic Chemicals, Sen. Lautenberg, Oregon, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Vitter, Bisphenol A, Sen. Whitehouse, The American Chemistry Council, The North American Metal Packaging Alliance, Green News
Elizabeth Grossman

From what the chemical and packaging industries have been saying in response to questions about the safety of certain products, American innovation may be in trouble.

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Amber Waves of Antibodies

Gourmet | Barry Estabrook | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Grocery Manufacturers Association, Farming, Usda, Food Matters, Union of Concerned Scientists, Gm, Eating Matters, Genetically Modified, Agriculture, Green News, General Mills, Pepsico, Green News

Another week, another hole ripped in our food safety net. This one is courtesy of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which last month...

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