Technology Brings Better Mangoes (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Thursday, May 3, 2007
By Jeff Stier. I've been told by many that you haven't experienced a mango until you've had one from India. But until this week, you'd have had to travel pretty far to get one...  Read Full >>

Organic Food a Detriment to Public Health (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Jeff Stier. You Are What You Grow. That's the title of Michael Pollan's most recent New York Times Magazine article. In it, he argues that the U.S. Farm Bill is a villain in our obesity crisis, especially for the poor. If only the government incented farmers to grow more broccoli instead of corn (and from corn, high fructose corn syrup), poor families would change their eating habits. Specifically, Pollan would like us all to eat more organic produce. Is he right...  Read Full >>

Which Is Right? (from the New York Times)
By Todd Seavey
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Wednesday, March 14, 2007
By Todd Seavey.  Restaurants are replacing butter with margarine (or vice versa in some cases)? Or with palm oil (which is worse, from a health perspective)?  Outlawing one option does not mean that other, better ones magically appear at the same price. It does not even mean that there will be a net gain for public health...  Read Full >>

The SweetN' Lowdown, Thirty Years On (from TCSDaily.com)
One Cancer Scare the Public Didn't Fall For
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Articles
Publish Date : Friday, March 9, 2007
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan. Thirty years ago this week -- on March 9, 1977 -- the Food and Drug Administration announced its intention to ban what was then the only artificial sweetener, saccharin. The ban was prompted by a Canadian study suggesting that saccharin caused bladder cancer in rats. The FDA was following the dictates of the so-called "Delaney Clause," which prohibits the use of food additives that cause cancer in laboratory animals. There have been many food-chemical cancer scares over the years -- including the Great Cranberry Scare of 1959, the red dye #2 kerfuffle of 1976, and the Alar extravaganza of 1989 (with many others in between). But the saccharin scare generated a decidedly different public response...  Read Full >>

Make Health a Priority in 2007: Twelve Resolutions
Publish Date : Thursday, December 14, 2006
The American Council on Science and Health is dedicated to helping you set rational priorities for a healthy and long life...  Read Full >>