A research report in the March 2 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) pointed out that many members of National Football League (NFL) teams (57%, to be exact) had Body Mass Indices (BMIs) over 30 -- numbers that would put them in the range of body weight considered obese. Similarly, the March 9 edition of the Kansas City Star had an article listing the BMIs of a number of National Basketball Association (NBA) players -- who also came in at or close to 30.

A March 8, 2005 article in the Irish Times describes people who ate exclusively at McDonald's to demonstrate, contrary to the film Super-Size Me, that it is possible to do so and lose weight. The article quotes ACSH's Dr. Ruth Kava:
TechCentralStation contacted Ruth Kava, director of nutrition at the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) and asked her to validate the results of Whaley and Weavers' McDiets.

As the demand for -- and cost of -- prescription drugs in America soar, the Internet marketplace for medications grows. Seniors, especially, are being taken in and blinded by their desire for more and cheaper drugs.

A March 4, 2005 article by Kirsten Boyd Goldberg on CancerLetter.com -- about the Legacy Foundation dubbing Time Inc. an anti-tobacco "hero" despite their magazines running many tobacco ads -- quotes an article on the topic by ACSH's Rivka Weiser:

This piece appeared in National Review Online.
The FDA has its heavy regulatory hand on almost one quarter of the nation's economy, so its leadership is of deep concern to all Americans, not merely those involved in public health. Recently, President Bush nominated Lester Crawford as permanent FDA commissioner. Although Crawford has been acting chief of the agency for much of the past four years, everyone is wondering what his approach will be now that he's the boss.

Natural chemicals were found in whale blubber by three researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). After removing a beached whale, selecting a large sample of fat and then six months of lab work to remove various materials to get to the chemicals in their pure form, the researchers found what they were looking for. Emma Teuten, Li Xu, and Christopher Reddy found that these chemicals showed a detectable radiocarbon signal, only found in natural sources. That means that the chemicals were not the residual of manmade pollution.

A March 1, 2005 Family Practice News debate about whether to remove red meat from our diets included a "no" argument from ACSH's executive and medical director with the following cautionary introduction (but please check out

A March 1, 2005 Editor and Publisher article by Brian Orloff about John Tierney taking William Safire's place on the New York Times editorial page (alongside his ideologically-opposed ex-girlfriend, Maureen Dowd) mentions the objections of Columbia Journalism Review's Zach Roth and, in the process, Roth's objections to ACSH (which accepts donations from anyone willing to give -- including you, or for that matter Greenpeace -- as long as no strings are attached to our research):

The often-claimed "right to know" -- now being espoused by anti-biotech activists seeking the location of biotech testing areas -- cannot be fully understood without the related principle, the "need to know."

Sally Squires' Washington Post article "The Cost of Compliance" (February 22) dished a healthy dose of reality to those who suggest that the obesity crisis in this country is the fault of big business trying to dump cheap, unhealthy foods on an all-too-susceptible public.