New York, New York, January 10, 2007 — At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) two Trustees and 22 distinguished scientific and policy advisors were elected to serve on ACSH’s Board of Trustees and Board of Scientific Advisors, respectively.

A January 10, 2007 column by George Mason University economics professor Walter Williams, appearing in Human Events, in Deseret News, and on PittsburghLive.com, mentions the reaction of ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan to the trans fat hysteria:

The past twelve months produced a bumper crop of health scares, according to physicians and scientists with the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). In a new roundup, ACSH describes the genesis of 10 of the most outrageous ones, and explains why they are scares with little or no basis in scientific fact.
“Food and nutrition are always prime targets for outlandish pronouncements,” stated Dr. Ruth Kava, ACSH nutrition director. This year the false food-related scares included:

This piece originally appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.

The January 6, 2007 issue of the British science journal The Lancet included an obituary, written by Hannah Brown, for Dr. David Kritchevsky, which featured comments from his fellow ACSH Advisors Dr.s David Klurfeld and Jon Story as well as ACSH president Dr. Elizabeth Whelan:

This piece originally appeared in the New York Sun.
Public-health "advocates" have to rally popular sentiment and political support to make progress on the long list of foods and consumer products that they want to see banned because of purported health hazards. They issue regular press releases about "toxins," "poisons," and "carcinogens" and then frequently follow up with calls for regulatory action.

Filmmaker Soso Whaley (we swear that's her real name) decided to prove you can lose weight even while eating every meal at McDonald's, contrary to what Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame would have you believe. A condensed version of her adventure is now on YouTube and features appearances by ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross and Dr. Ruth Kava.

A January 2007 article by Heartland Institute's Aricka T. Flowers quotes ACSH on trans fat:
"There is no relation between trans fat and obesity," said Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health, a Manhattan-based consumer-education nonprofit focused on health and lifestyle issues.

ACSH was saddened by the passing of ACSH Advisor Dr. Roger P. Maickel, whose December 28, 2006 obituary in the Journal and Courier noted some of his many accomplishments:

This piece first appeared December 23, 2006 in the Washington Times.
Pfizer's recent decision to terminate its 15,000-patient study of torcetrapib and abandon further development of this HDL-raising drug, while completely justified by the 60 percent increase in deaths among those taking it, casts a cloud over a whole class of cardiovascular therapeutics -- which is very bad news for millions of Americans at risk for heart disease.