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The Biggest Delusion in the History of Preventive Medicine?
According to two top medical researchers, the hype behind the wild claims of the “sodium police” isn’t, well, worth its salt. Salt is routinely demonized in the media, by regulators, and activist groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which has called salt “the deadly white powder you...
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Publicity Hound Physician: Require ID for Soda
“I'm actually trying to undo the nanny state.” Coming as it did from a public health researcher, that sounds like a breath of fresh air, right? Has Kelly Brownell met his professorial arch-nemesis? Sadly, no.
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New Nature Comment Piece Sour on Sugar
Center for Consumer Freedom Responds to Authors’ Absurd Call to Treat Sugar Like Alcohol and Tobacco
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Soda Taxes Are Ineffective, Outdated
As expected, the new year brought a new push from do-gooder public health activists intent on taxing soft drinks. In Oregon, advocates proposed a ballot initiative to place a penny-per-ounce wholesale tax on sugary soft drinks. A Portland physician modeled the measure after a 2009 proposal by Kelly “Twinkie Tax” Brownell from Yale University’s Rudd...
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Is This CSPI’s Idea of a Cookie Drive?

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