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Cookbooks
New in Cookbooks Candle 79 Cookbook: Modern Vegan Classics from New York’s Premier Sustainable Restaurant $30.00 |
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 |
The Best and Worst Cookbooks of the Decade
A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine January 2010 As record obesity rates underscore the need for Americans to adopt more healthful eating patterns, many cookbooks encourage readers to follow exactly the opposite trajectory—with high-fat, meat-heavy meals. Dietitians from the Physi |
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 |
A Guide to Healthy Weight Loss
A Guide to Healthy Weight Loss: Three weeks on a low-fat vegan diet gets you on the road to your healthy weight goal Of the many ways to lose weight, one stands out as by far the most healthful. When you build your meals from a generous array of vegeta |
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 |
America’s Biggest Corporations Offer Vegetarian Options
It’s a cold winter day, and those employees who haven’t yet kicked the habit are huddling outside the building exits to finish off that last bit of meatloaf before going back into their meat-free building. A fantasy? Maybe. But American businesses are looking for ways to encourage good health |
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 |
Sublime Vegan Cookbooks Top PCRM’s Best Cookbooks List
Vegan cookbooks The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone and The Conscious Cook by Tal Ronnen were recent New York Times best-sellers. Like Nanci Alexander’s The Sublime Restaurant Cookbook and others that topped PCRM’s best cookbooks list, the popularity of these books shows that Americans want to improve the |
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