Headlines & features

Laura Dolson from About.com describes a special article published today in the journal Nutrition that sharply criticizes the recent Report of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). The authors argue the Report fails to conform to the standards of evidence-based medicine, despite its claimed reliance on a newly created USDA Nutrition Evidence Library. The authors call the DGAC to task for failing to consider recent scientific results while at the same time further confusing the American public. Read more...

At the root of the impasse: a proposed $2.2 billion cut in future funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food stamps for the poor. Despite personal appeals by the first lady, the Democrats balked at what they saw as a plan to pay for the nutrition bill by quietly cutting SNAP — an essential food safety net that lawmakers had already borrowed from to pay for emergency aid to states. Read the entire article.

Although the calendar still reads September, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is already "Working for Winter" by inspecting every snowplow and salt spreader in its fleet to make sure they are road ready when the first snowflake falls. Read more on the preparations.

"..... - the action by San Francisco's supervisors is symptomatic of increased regulation of free markets at all levels of government." Read more.

The salt and health debate has become an embarrassment to science. Editorial. (pdf 91.29 kB)

"....several recent metareviews on the subject (salt reduction) have concluded that the available evidence does not support a population-widereductions of salt intake. Entire letter. (pdf 56.06 kB)

Until these charities wise up and stop dispensing funds to frauds like the EWG and CSPI, the silly season will only get sillier. Click for article.

Opinion letter (pdf 215.19 kB) in regards to New Scientist's May Article "A sprinkling of doubt"

I can't think of another more versatile mineral. Salt is the most common and readily available nonmetallic mineral in the world. Learn more

“…Larger studies are needed and that too little sodium can harm health. The recommendations made really hold a lot of risk for consumers…." Read more.