Michael Jacobson Quotations

would help Americans reduce their risk of heart disease.

Nickelodeon and Kellogg's engage in business practices that literally sicken our children.

Nickelodeon and Kellogg engage in business practices that literally sicken our children. It's a multimedia brainwashing and re-education campaign -- and a disease-promoting one at that.

Having the word 'limit' sends a much stronger signal. We wanted the guidelines to include the limit of Department of Agriculture already recommends, which is 10 teaspoons a day.

I think the attitude in the U.S. is changing. A lot of policy makers are opening up to that sort of thinking, ... But there's not a lot of money for programs like that, and the Canadian system is much smaller than ours.

Parents do bear the primary responsibility to ensure their kids eat a healthy diet. But the food industry is making their jobs nearly impossible. The industry needs to accept its fair share of the responsibility.

Our goal is to get it out of the food supply. There are healthier alternatives.

My Pyramid for Kids doesn't dare to discourage children from consuming so much soda, fast food, candy, and other junk foods.

Listening to them, you would think they want studies done on humans.

We pretty much ignore them. They are so over the top that I think they come off as just a public relations hatchet man for the restaurant and food processing industry.

We used to file all sorts of complaints with the government. Sometimes we'd get a response, but usually nothing happened. Now, when we have told companies that we're going to sue them, they show up in our offices the next week.

While functional foods hold much promise, without effective regulation, they may merely become the snake oil of the next century.

But of course this silly legislative effort has nothing to do with encouraging personal responsibility and everything to do with pleasing a powerful and politically connected industry.

We had asked for the FDA to consider two other options. One is to get rid of these colorings completely and let companies replace them with safer ingredients. But if the FDA decided to require labeling, at least to indicate that these are insect derived.

Even the most careful consumers, consumers with nutrition degrees, can scrutinize labels and have no idea how much sugar is added and how much comes from the fruit or dairy product.

Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.

The risk to a given individual from having some saccharin-sweetened soda or coffee is really trivial. It's when you multiply that times 200 million people that the risk becomes much more significant.

These changes will saves thousands of lives every year.

Rather small amounts, the amount you might get in an ounce or two of potato chips, cause a wide range of gastro- intestinal problems.

A far better step would be to provide calorie counts right on the menu board, so consumers would have that one critical piece of information before they placed their order.

Denmark has in effect banned partially hydrogenated oil; Canada is considering it. The United States ought to do the same.

Back then, saccharin was the only artificial sweetener available. Some people really wanted it, and industry certainly wanted to continue making Tab. So saccharin was let off the hook.

This information on the package is useful, but it doesn't offer people an opportunity to compare products, ... Having it on the menu board would spur a lot of people to switch to a smaller order of fries, a diet soda, or a regular hamburger instead of a cheeseburger, for instance.

It's almost worthless. I don't think the word soda pop is mentioned anywhere in these materials, even though it's the No. 1 source of calories for Americans.

It looks to us as though hospitals hadn't been thinking about how they've been preparing foods.

The agency has had so much turnover in the top spot, and turmoil throughout, that it could have benefited from a period of steady leadership.

Switching to butter, palm oil, anything else would be an improvement.

The USDA is trying to do nutrition education on the cheap.

This is just warmed-over, namby-pamby 1950s nutrition education. It's telling kids what they know.

Their overall mix of products is still way too high in saturated and trans fats, salt and sugar. But you can't fault them for offering a healthy alternative.

Their weight is front and center. And it's a far greater risk to their health than these artificial sweeteners.

Canadian corrections are generally much more into rehabilitation in prisons and re-entry, ... They're not as punishment-oriented as we are. There is an emphasis on dealing with the underlying issues.

Hospitals should be setting examples for the community, setting the pace, even creating the market for healthier products. These are health institutions. They should be promoting health.

I care about my child's health at home. I want the schools to care about my child's health when my child is under their care.

Columbus is about to become the diarrhea capitol of the nation,

These foods are high in calories and low in nutrients.

The industry has had decades to clean up its act, but instead it has only intensified its marketing.

An additive that can cause vomiting or diarrhea does not belong in a snack food eaten by millions of Americans.

The materials don't even have the guts to urge kids to drink less soda pop, or eat less candy.