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...failing to disclose health risks when describing a food as nutritious. Plaintiffs' lawyers argue that consumers who rely on inaccurate information can't make informed decisions about what to eat. Robert's American Gourmet just settled a class action claiming that the firm misstated the calorie and fat content of the popular Pirate's Booty snack and reportedly paid out more than $3 million. The company had no comment on the suit. McDonald's paid $12.5 million in 2001 and issued a public apology to settle a suit brought by former students of Banzhaf's for advertising that its fries...
...beginning in 2004. In late August the school board will consider whether to set tougher nutrition standards for cafeteria menus and vending-machine snacks. In June the New York City Department of Education announced it would ban candy and soda from school vending machines and would reduce the fat content in cafeteria meals. Kelly Brownell, the director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders and the author of a forthcoming book on the obesity crisis, Food Fight, worries that the public's perception of money-hungry lawyers trying to control food choice through the courts may cause...
...Taggart ranch, the black Angus swish their tails contentedly. And the Taggarts are content too. Since they switched to pasture, they have doubled their income. More than 1,000 customers are in their database, and they are planning a store in Dallas with grass-fed lamb, pasture-based cheese, and classes on slow-cooking grass-fed beef. Says Wendy Taggart: "People are tuning in to what I call real food...
...collective potbelly suggests that it doesn't. Some researchers think artificial sweeteners may actually interfere with our efforts to diet. A 2004 study by psychologists at Purdue University found that when rats were fed artificially sweetened liquids for 10 days, they lost their innate ability to gauge the calorie content of foods containing real sugar...
...College Curricular Review and the largest physical expansion of Harvard’s in its history hung in the balance. In 2001, Harvard was rich, but hadn’t yet found a way to buy a new lease on life. Summers showed a way.Second, and more importantly, the content of Summers’ vision was so compelling that it often seemed that the faster it could come to fruition, the better. Perhaps it was Summers’ experience away from the academy, first at the helm of the Treasury Department and as the World Bank’s chief...