Parents do bear the primary responsibility to ensure their kids eat a healthy diet. But the food industry is making their jobs nearly impossible. The industry needs to accept its fair share of the responsibility.
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Even the most careful consumers, consumers with nutrition degrees, can scrutinize labels and have no idea how much sugar is added and how much comes from the fruit or dairy product.Michael Jacobson
I think the attitude in the U. S. is changing. A lot of policy makers are opening up to that sort of thinking, ... But there's not a lot of money for programs like that, and the Canadian system is much smaller than ours.
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Hospitals should be setting examples for the community, setting the pace, even creating the market for healthier products. These are health institutions. They should be promoting health.
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The agency has had so much turnover in the top spot, and turmoil throughout, that it could have benefited from a period of steady leadership. The country doesn't need a rudderless FDA.
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A far better step would be to provide calorie counts right on the menu board, so consumers would have that one critical piece of information before they placed their order.
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The industry has had decades to clean up its act, but instead it has only intensified its marketing.
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