"Which beverage is best for staying slim -- a can of diet orange soda or a glass of orange juice?" asks the New York Sun's Julia Levy. "If you ask the city's Department of Education, it's option B, the orange juice," she writes.

Dust on computers from flame retardants is called a health risk, explains a June 4 article by Benjamin Pimantel of the San Francisco Chronicle:
But Jeff Stier, associate director of the American Council on Science and Health, criticized the report's authors for exaggerating the dangers from brominated flame retardants.

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel (http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/8841087.htm):
June 4, 2004
A Super Size Distortion

Gary Null, Dr. Andrew Weil, General Nutrition Centers, and the other vitamin pitch men trusted by all too many Americans may be responsible for your worsening arthritis.
"Vitamin C May Worsen Arthritis, Study Finds," reports Reuters.

If ACSH had a nickel for every time an activist railed against the "cancer epidemic," well, we wouldn't have to ask you to contribute to our work.
Look no further than the Teresa Heinz-funded anti-chemical documentary, Rachael's Daughters: Searching for the Causes of Breast Cancer, "the story of seven women, all breast-cancer victims or survivors, working to unearth the causes of the breast-cancer epidemic."

People who view Morgan Spurlock's movie Super Size Me can be forgiven if they walk out thinking fast foods like those served at McDonald's and Burger King are particularly fattening. Mr. Spurlock ate (gorged, really) only at McDonald's for thirty days and ordered the super-sized versions whenever he was asked. As a consequence of his gluttony, he gained twenty-five pounds, raised his blood pressure and cholesterol, and saw deleterious changes in his liver.

As we begin June, are you more aware of asthma and allergies? Better sleep? Hepatitis? High blood pressure? Well, May was awareness month for these important health issues as well as others -- it was National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, too, and the public is reportedly better informed about all twenty-three of the issues brought to their attention last month.

An "alternative" paper in Las Vegas has gone into full-on tinfoil hat mode about the Morgan Spurlock documentary "Super Size Me."
They claim - third hand, of course - that this guy who has this friend who knows this dude tells him that a nefarious group known as The Firm was contracted by another firm to undermine the movie.

A May 25 article by Star Lawrence (with Charlotte Grayson, M.D.) of WebMD Medical News about a device designed to make overeaters take smaller bites includes an ACSH reference (see http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/87/99579.htm?printing=true):

This letter was published on examiner.net

To the editor:

Morgan Spurlock's new movie, "Super Size Me," has led some in the media to call him a glutton for punishment. But what he demonstrated was just plain gluttony, compounded by an intentional lack of physical activity.