From the American Council on Science and Health
It’s enough to make us sick to our stomachs — all the shoddy food-related public health articles and pseudo-science we see sometimes. And we’re not the only ones — in Reason.com, Baylen Linnekin, president of a Washington-based issue organization called Keep Food Legal, has a very thorough expose citing articles and naming names. In one example, California was praised by USA Today for perhaps bringing us to “the turning point” in combating childhood obesity. When Linnekin looked up the facts behind this startling claim, he found an “issue brief” by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and found that 38.4 percent of the students in three grades were obese, while five years earlier, 38.5 percent were. “For those keeping score,” Linnekin writes, “that’s a decrease of 1.1 percent in the obese/overweight levels of a completely different set of students over five years.” To Read More…..
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