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Milk Consumption and Prostate Cancer
Milk Consumption and Prostate Cancer Abstract Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide, with an estimated 400,000 new cases diagnosed annually. Its incidence and mortality have been associated with milk or dairy product consumption in intern |
News Releases
2012 Super Bowl Shockers: Five Amazingly Unhealthy Party Foods February 3, 2012 School Lunch Guidelines Fall Short: Still Too Much Meat, Dairy, and Junk in School Lunches January 26, 2012 Fat-Focused Billboards Warn Albany that Cheese Makes You Chubby January 18, 2012 Paula Deen Mak |
Health Concerns about Dairy Products
Health Concerns about Dairy Products Many Americans, including some vegetarians, still consume substantial amounts of dairy products—and government policies still promote them—despite scientific evidence that questions their health benefits and indicates their potential health risks. Osteoporosi |
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 |
New PCRM Study Shatters Milk Myth: Children’s Bone Health Tied to Exercise, Not Dairy
For years, the dairy industry’s milk mustache ads have pushed the notion that milk drinking helps children grow strong bones. A review published in the March 2005 issue of Pediatrics by PCRM senior nutrition scientist Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D., and co-authors |
Dairy Industry Dishonest in New Weight-Loss Gimmick Campaign
WASHINGTON—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) today blasted the National Dairy Council for launching a deceptive campaign designed to push the false notion that consuming more dairy products leads to a trimmer waistline. National Dairy Council |
School Lunch Report Card
School Lunch Report Card A Report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine August 2003 As children head back to school this fall, many face a daunting array of diet-related health problems—and a challenging environment in school cafeterias. Because meals |
Dairy Ads May Dupe Dieters
By Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D This op-ed was published on May 24, 2004, in the Detroit Free Press. It builds bone. It makes muscle. It melts away surplus pounds faster than ice cream disappears from hot asphalt. Who knows? Maybe it can even give you back that new car smell. T |
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’s Complaint Halts Misleading Dairy Advertisements
Two national dairy advertising campaigns overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture will stop claiming that dairy products cause weight loss, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in early May. The decision, which comes in response to a petition filed by PCRM, will end misleading claims made in the &ldqu |
Physicians Urge Elizabeth Hurley to Disavow False Dairy Diet Claims
WASHINGTON—In a letter sent today to Elizabeth Hurley, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) called on the British actress and model to stop participating in an advertising campaign that falsely implies that consuming dairy product |
Weight-Loss Ads Are Big Dairy’s Latest Way to Trick Consumers
By Neal D. Barnard, M.D. This piece was published on Aug. 15, 2005, in AgWeek. Every year, consumers waste billions of dollars on false weight-loss schemes. But the latest fad diet may be one of the most deceptive yet. “Burn more fat,” advises a glossy print ad for |
USDA, Dairy Industry End Dairy-Weight Loss Advertisements
You’ve seen the advertisements. Trim celebrities like Elizabeth Hurley and Beyoncé tell you that eating three servings of dairy a day will help you lose weight. Thousands of Americans were duped into thinking that dairy product consumption is associated with weight loss because of this slick advertisi |
Dairy Products and Overweight
A new study from Purdue University counters the notion that dairy products encourage weight loss, an idea touted in dairy industry advertisements. Researchers assigned participants to one of three groups: (1) a control group that maintained its usual diet, (2) |
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 |
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