A P RI L 2009
Volume 36 Number 3
S TA F F
EDITORIAL
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ungry for more
information than
you find in each issue of Nutrition Action? Visit
our Canadian and U.S. Web
sites for an all-you-can-eat
buffet of useful, interesting
information, quizzes, and
videos.
Our archive of past articles lets you revisit
favourites since 2004—including every outrageous Food Porn from our back cover. And
you can read up on
key initiatives that
the Centre for Science in the Public
Interest (CSPI), the
non-profit publisher
of Nutrition Action,
is working on.
So fire up your
browser and start
clicking. Some possibilities from our
Canadian Web site
(www.cspinet.ca):
n Eating Green. Worried about the impact of
food and agriculture on health, the environment, and animal welfare? Read or download,
for free, our comprehensive book, Six Arguments for a Greener Diet. You can even use our
interactive calculators to rate your own diet.
n Integrity in Science. Reading the newspaper, you might be surprised to see professors
or health organizations defending unhealthy
diets or junk food. Pssst! They might just be
reluctant to criticize the hand that pays them.
(The University of Toronto’s Program in Food
Safety, Nutrition and
Regulatory Affairs,
for instance, gets
funding from the
food industry.) Our
Web site lifts the veil
scienof secrecy over scien
tists’ industry ties.
n Recipes. You can
work up an appetite
being an activist, so
when your thoughts
turn to dinner, let
Nutrition Action
Action’s
Healthy Cook, Kate
Sherwood, show you
how to whip up a
delicious dish in half
an hour or so. (Click
on Healthy Cook at
n Policy Change.
Check out what
we’re doing to get
Become an E-Activist and help us
chain restaurants to
make the Canadian diet healthier. Click on
the link at www.cspinet.ca.
list calories on their
menus, get trans fat
the bottom of the page.)
out of restaurant foods, and improve school
foods.
After dinner, go to youtube.com/CSPITV,
n E-Activists. We’ve always taken the “Ac-
tion” part of our name seriously. Join our
growing activist network and use your keyboard to press the food industry or government to change products or policies. You’ll
receive e-mail notices inviting you to send
e-mails on timely issues.
And from our U.S. site (www.cspinet.org):
n Food Safety. What may be the Internet’s
most reliable and candid advice on common
food additives rates each one as “Safe,” “Cut
Back,” “Caution,” “Certain People Should
Avoid,” or “Everyone Should Avoid.” (Click
on Food Safety, then Food Additives.)
The contents of NAH are not intended
to provide medical advice, which should be
obtained from a qualified health professional.
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where you’ll see a potpourri of our staff’s TV
appearances, press conferences, and a brief
history (by yours truly) of CSPI.
See you online.
Michael F. Jacobson, PhD
Executive Director
Centre for Science in the Public Interest
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(orders.cspinet.org), or to make a donation to
fuel our advocacy work (www.cspinet.ca, click
on Donate).
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(CSPI) is the non-profit health-advocacy group
that publishes Nutrition Action Healthletter. CSPI mounts educational programs
and presses for changes in government and
corporate policies.
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© 2009 by Centre for Science in the Public
Interest.
Michael Jacobson, PhD
Executive Editor
Bonnie Liebman, MS
Director of Nutrition
Stephen B. Schmidt
Editor-in-Chief
Jayne Hurley, RD
David Schardt
Senior Nutritionists
Danielle Hazard, BS
Amy Johnson, BA
Project Coordinators
Melissa Pryputniewicz
Administrative Assistant
Namita Davis, BSc
Tina Kevorkian, RD
Marsha Rosen, RD
Consultants (Toronto)
Lauren Clark, RD
Consultant (Ottawa)
Bill Jeffery, LLB
National Coordinator (Ottawa)
C I R C U L AT I O N M A N A G E M E N T
Dennis Bass
Myriam Boucher
Damon Dorsey
Greg Hildebrandt
Cecilia Saad
Ken Waldmiller
Debra Brink
Louella Fennell
James Nocera
Chris Schmidt
SCIENTIFIC
A D V I S O RY B OA R D
Monique Julien, MSc, DrPH
Université de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec
Mary McKenna, PhD, RD
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Andrew Pipe, CM, MD, LLD, DSc
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Ottawa, Ontario
Kim Raine, PhD, RD
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Frank Sacks, MD
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jeremiah Stamler, MD
Northwestern University Medical School
Chicago, Illinois
Norman Temple, PhD
Athabasca University
Athabasca, Alberta
Regina G. Ziegler, PhD, MPH
U.S. National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland
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