Clark Wolf is the host and organizer. The panel—on food and politics—includes me, talking about my memoir, Slow Cooked, An Unexpected Life in Food Politics; Chloe Sorvino, author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat; Alex Prud’homme, author of Dinner With The President: Food, Politics and the History of Breaking Bread at the White House; and Tanya Holland, author of Tanya Holland’s California Soul. Free, but register here. It starts at 5:00 p.m. and lasts one hour.
by Marion Nestle
Dec
15
2009
Sodas, sweetened and not
The research demonstrating the not-so-great effects of sodas just pours in, as it were. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has two new research reports, one on justification for taxation of soft drinks, and the other on the negative effects of soft drinks on kids’ health.
David Ludwig writes in JAMA that artificially sweetened drinks are unlikely to help the situation. They just make people want sweeter foods.
And the New York City Health Department has put its anti-soda campaign online. This is its controversial “drinking fat” campaign designed to make the point that excess calories from sugary soft drinks will put on the pounds. Why controversial? Take a look at the cute guy demonstrating the drinking-fat point on the YouTube video.
What’s your take on this?