An investigative report from Public Eye and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN): “How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries.” Nestlé’s leading baby...
Darra Goldstein, editor. The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. Oxford University Press, 2015. Full disclosure: I have two entries in this book, one with Daniel Bowman Simon. Simon DB, Nes...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2015/05/weekend-reading-the-oxford-companion-to-sugar-and-sweets/
Here are two more items on the endless disputes over sugar intake. 1. The IOM’s 25% of calories from sugar “recommendation” I was surprised to see the Institute of Medicine’s upper limi...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2015/04/sugar-politics-never-a-dull-moment/
I’ve been collecting items on sugars. Here are the first two. Two more will come later this week. 1. The American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Nutrition has new guidance on sugars in ...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2015/04/sugar-politics-the-sagas-never-end/
I was surprised by FoodNavigator-USA’s story about “SmartCandy,”—a “vitamin-infused snack.” Could the name and contents of this candy be violating the FDA’s “jelly bean” rule? T...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2015/04/is-smartcandy-smart-policy/
A new study in PLoS Medicine provides documentary evidence of sugar industry manipulation of research on dental caries in the 1960s and 1970s. The paper is a formal presentation of an article in...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has finally officially released its recommendations for sugar intake. I say “officially,” because I posted an earlier version these guidelines late in J...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2015/03/world-health-organization-eat-less-sugar/
BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) has just released an editorial and four papers on ties between the sugar industry and public health scientists who advise the government on health polic...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2015/02/sugar-politics-the-bmjs-series-spinning-a-web-of-influence/
The World Health Organization (WHO) released two reports within the last week aimed at preventing noncommunicable diseases. Although the second is all about reducing sugar intake, the first rep...
The Union of Concerned Sciences has produced this infographic in celebration of Halloween. It’s not Halloween parents should be worrying about. It’s every day! The UCS graphic is based on ...