Michael Jacobson Quotes

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

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. The country doesn't need a rudderless FDA.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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