Comments on: USDA’s corporate challenge: the road to healthville? http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/05/usdas-corporate-challenge-the-road-to-healthville/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Migraineur http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/05/usdas-corporate-challenge-the-road-to-healthville/comment-page-1/#comment-11074 Migraineur Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:24:03 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/05/30/usdas-corporate-challenge-the-road-to-healthville/#comment-11074 Like Sheila said, these are the people who brought us the 100-calorie snack packs. As a fellow blogger said, "100 calories of garbage is still garbage." I still haven't seen any truly brilliant ideas, or even slightly good ones, come from Wansink. When are we gonna get a nutritionist, instead of an expert on marketing, to head up the arm of the USDA that makes dietary guidelines? Oh, wait ... never. Like Sheila said, these are the people who brought us the 100-calorie snack packs. As a fellow blogger said, “100 calories of garbage is still garbage.”

I still haven’t seen any truly brilliant ideas, or even slightly good ones, come from Wansink. When are we gonna get a nutritionist, instead of an expert on marketing, to head up the arm of the USDA that makes dietary guidelines?

Oh, wait … never.

]]> By: K http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/05/usdas-corporate-challenge-the-road-to-healthville/comment-page-1/#comment-11073 K Sat, 31 May 2008 23:47:52 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/05/30/usdas-corporate-challenge-the-road-to-healthville/#comment-11073 ...out of the *cardboard* box, probably. …out of the *cardboard* box, probably.

]]> By: Sheila http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/05/usdas-corporate-challenge-the-road-to-healthville/comment-page-1/#comment-11072 Sheila Sat, 31 May 2008 03:17:32 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/05/30/usdas-corporate-challenge-the-road-to-healthville/#comment-11072 I am thinking they will ramp up those special package notices to help us make "better" choices, like the mostly-sugar processed fruit roll-up products might get labeled as "fat-free" to attract consumers to this now "healthy" fruit product. Or the labels on soda and cookies telling us that these products are "low sodium" foods. Or those tiny 100-calorie packages of chips and cookies, like we won't eat 6 of those packages at a sitting! I am thinking they will ramp up those special package notices to help us make “better” choices, like the mostly-sugar processed fruit roll-up products might get labeled as “fat-free” to attract consumers to this now “healthy” fruit product.
Or the labels on soda and cookies telling us that these products are “low sodium” foods.
Or those tiny 100-calorie packages of chips and cookies, like we won’t eat 6 of those packages at a sitting!

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