Here’s a newsflash. Makers of children’s cereals who advertiser to kids the most are the ones most likely loaded with sugar and starved of fiber. The obvious was revealed during a new study conducted by Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The study found that an average American child sees 642 cereal ads each year. But the cereals most often advertised are those that contain 85 percent more sugar, 60 percent less fiber and 60 percent more sodium than those marketed to their parents.
You could call it the icing on the cake, but those cereal ads are …read more

On the heels of Wednesday’s article on the closer examination of doctors’ relationships with pharmaceutical companies, an editorial in today’s New York Times calls for some house cleaning on a much higher level, in the FDA.
Earlier this week, Gardiner Harris and Janet Roberts reported in “Doctors’ Ties to Drug Makers Are Put on Close View,”
In dozens of interviews, most doctors said that these payments [from pharmaceutical companies] had no effect on their care of patients.
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There is nothing illegal about doctors’ accepting money for marketing talks, and professional organizations have largely ignored the issue.
But research shows that doctors who have close …read more