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Nonprofit Doctors Groups Drops Food Giant from Ongoing Lawsuit
Washington, D.C.—Kraft Foods, Inc., has confirmed that it is no longer running advertisements suggesting that dairy products encourage weight loss. In response to Kraft’s statement, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has dropped Kraft from a lawsuit that called the advertisements deceptiv |
Doctors Offer Irving $75,000 to Post Obesity Cartoon instead of Promoting Kraft Cheese during Texas Stadium Implosion
WASHINGTON—The eye-catching implosion of Texas Stadium should not be used to market high-fat cheese products to children in the midst of an obesity epidemic, says a doctors group that has offered the city of Irving $75,000 if it will drop Kraft Foods as the sponsor of the stadium’s destruction and, instead, |
Physicians Group Complaint to Federal Trade Commission Faults Milk Industry's Advertising Claims
WASHINGTON—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) today charged that the dairy industry has used “false and misleading” advertising in its multimillion-dollar campaign suggesting that milk causes weight loss, and petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking it to put an |
Doctors Group Files Suit against Kraft, General Mills, Dannon, and Dairy Trade Groups for False Dairy Weight-Loss Claims
WASHINGTON—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) announced today that it has filed two major lawsuits to stop a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign claiming that milk facilitates weight loss. PCRM charges that three main dairy industry trade groups—the International Dairy Foods |
Nutrition and Renal Disease
Nutrition and Renal Disease The kidneys’ job is to keep the body’s fluids, electrolytes, and organic solutes in a healthy balance. Their functional units are the million or so nephrons in the renal cortex which filter most constituents of the blood other |
PCRM 2005: The Year in Review: Good Nutrition
In 2005, PCRM’s nutrition experts worked hard to educate both the public and the medical profession, providing information and cutting-edge scientific research on good nutrition. Amid alarming obesity statistics and confusing fad diets, PCRM’s work helped |
PCRM Goes to Court Over False Dairy Weight-Loss Claims
On June 28, PCRM filed two separate lawsuits to stop a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign claiming that milk facilitates weight loss. PCRM charges the National Dairy Council, the International Dairy Foods Association, Dairy Management, Inc., Dannon Company, Kraft |
PCRM Files Suit, Charging Bias in Federal Diet Guidelines
PCRM has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government for maintaining biased federal food policies that risk Americans' health, particularly for those groups hardest hit by chronic diseases. On December 15, 1999, PCRM filed suit against the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health an |
Doctors Urge House to Reject “Cheeseburger Bill”
WASHINGTON–The so-called “Cheeseburger Bill,” scheduled for a House vote this week, is anti-consumer and anti-health, says the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The “Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act,” |
Doctors Fire Round Two against False Dairy/Weight-Loss Claims
WASHINGTON—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today, requesting it put an end to false and misleading claims by dairy product manufacturers that contend milk consumption promotes weight and fat loss. PCRM is calling on the FDA to declar |
Junk-Food Lovers Rejoice, for Government Officials Are on the Job Protecting Your Health. Or Are They?
By Michele Simon This opinion piece was published on March 2, 2007, in The Salt Lake Tribune and The Clarion-Ledger on March 8, 2007. Philadelphia recently became the first city to pass legislation to ban artificial trans fat—that artery-clogging, industry-created substance used in frying oil and many b |
Cancer Risk Prompts Hot Dog Fraud Lawsuit Against Nathan’s Famous, Sara Lee, and Kraft/Oscar Mayer
WASHINGTON—Three New Jersey residents are suing Nathan’s Famous, Kraft Foods/Oscar Mayer, Sara Lee, Con Agra Foods, and Marathon Enterprises for failing to warn consumers that hot dogs increase the danger of colorectal cancer. The action comes in the wake of landmark scientific studies linking hot dogs an |
The Cancer Project Update
Dorothy Hamill Ad Expresses Support for The Cancer Project After Olympic champion figure skater Dorothy Hamill was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, she read The Cancer Survivor’s Guide: Foods that Help You Fight Back. She was so impressed by The Cancer Project’s work that she decided to star in a |
Hot Dogs Strike Out at All-Star Game and in New Jersey
“Warning: Hot Dogs Can Strike You Out—For Good.” That's the message thousands of baseball fans saw on the Cancer Project’s provocative highway billboard as they flocked to the 2009 All-Star Game. Days later, the nonprofit filed a lawsuit in New Jersey asking hot dog manufacturers for a sim |
PCRM Sues USDA Over Deceptive Dietary Guidelines
In a lawsuit filed Feb. 15, 2011, PCRM is suing the federal government over the newly released Dietary Guidelines for Americans, accusing officials of using deliberately obscure language regarding foods Americans should avoid. PCRM’s legal filing cites the government’s conflicts of interest and arbitrary |
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