Super Bowl Shockers: Five Amazingly Unhealthy Party Foods
News Release | Feb. 3, 2012

Super Bowl Sunday is America's second-biggest food consumption day of the year. In a new report, PCRM dietitians single out popular party items with extraordinarily high levels of saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol.

Chimpanzee Experiments Exposed on Prime-Time TV
Dr. Barnard's Blog | Feb. 2, 2012

The NBC news magazine show Rock Center recently covered the issue of chimpanzees used in experiments. The Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act would permanently end the use of chimpanzees in invasive experiments.

Bob Barker Asks University of Virginia to End Inhumane Use of Live Cats in Labs
Research | Jan. 27, 2012

Bob Barker, longtime host of The Price is Right and advocate for the humane treatment of animals, has joined PCRM in asking the University of Virginia to end the use of live cats in its pediatrics residency program.

School Lunch Guidelines Fall Short: Still Too Much Meat, Dairy, and Junk in School Lunches
News Release | Jan. 26, 2012

New school lunch guidelines issued by the USDA are too little too late to stem the tide of childhood obesity.

Cheese and Obesity
Dr. Barnard's Blog | Jan. 24, 2012

The obesity epidemic is not caused by inactivity, bread, rice, gluttony, weak will, or a bad childhood. It is caused by a tsunami of unhealthful foods, and one of the worst, perhaps surprisingly, is cheese.

We Are All Paula Deen
Dr. Barnard's Blog | Jan. 18, 2012

Paula Deen, the TV chef who has long promoted the worst of American gluttony with butter, meat, and junk, had been hiding from her fans the fact that she had developed type 2 diabetes. Ms. Deen is a mirror. And what she shows us is that it's time to throw out the butter and cream gravy.

PCRM Dietitians Offer to Help Paula Deen Fight Diabetes with Vegan Diet
Commentary | Jan. 17, 2012

"I want to let you know that I'm sorry to hear that you have to deal with the challenges of diabetes, but I want to offer my help," wrote PCRM's director of nutrition education Susan Levin, M.S., R.D., in a letter to Paula Deen.