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     Kommentar till en text av Jim Weller
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 SD> Yep, I feel the same way.  I have my doubts about these so-called
 SD> "scientific studies" that are "undertaken".
 
 DD> Many of them are "targeted" and paid for by people with a specific
 DD> axe to grind.
 
 JW> That's why, IMO, all such research should be done at universities
 JW> and funded by federal governments.
 
 DD> Respected universities have been known to "geek" if the bribes are
 DD> presented in such a way that they do not look like what they are. Feral
 DD> gummints, too. That's why most of them maintain propaganda departments
 DD> under some euphemism or other.

 JW> Then who should do the research and who should fund it?

Those who will benefit from it - the general public.  This is where
consumers' organisations such as the Australian Consumers'
Association, the US Consumers' Union and the other 223 members of
Consumers International have the power to be completely unbiased when
determining the truth of claims by manufacturers and marketters.
 
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  As an eating machine I'm driven far more by taste than by nutritional
  considerations. After all, one of my all time favorite dishes is Tung
  Po Pork, a Chinese concoction that consists mainly of pork fat and
  skin that is stewed in spices then steamed for several hours. That's
  why I was surprised to find myself interested in a flyer I got from
  The Nutrition Action Healthletter.  Maybe it was the title that
  caught my interest. Here are some excerpts from the flyer. 1. Quaker
  Oats 100% Natural Cereal. This overrated granola cereal's ten g of
  fat per half cup serving make it high in fat compared to other
  cereals. And, despite the crunch, it's not high in fiber.  A much
  better choice would be a low fat, whole-grain cereal like Kellogg
  Nutri-Grain Wheat, Post Grape-Nuts, General Mills Wheaties, or
  Nabisco Shredded Wheat. 2. Contadina Alfredo Sauce. A typical four
  ounce serving contains 34 grams of fat - 20 of them artery-clogging
  saturated fat. That's like drowning your pasta in more than a third
  of a stick of butter If you want a good bottled pasta sauce, try
  Enrico's Spaghetti Sauce No Salt Added, Tree of Life, or Colavita. 3.
  Nissin Chicken Cup O' Noodles. It will give you a surprisingly strong
  shot of fat (about 3 teaspoons' worth) and almost as much sodium
  (1,700 mg) as you should ideally eat in a whole day.  Try The Spice
  Hunter Quick and Natural Soups instead. A serving averages just half
  a teaspoon of fat and 200 mg of sodium - a much healthier
  alternative. 4. Taco Bell's Taco Salad with Shell. With the shell,
  this platter of beef, cheese, and beans has 14 teaspoons of fat, more
  than 5 teaspoons of saturated fat, and 905 calories. That's almost
  all the fat and saturated fat an adult should eat in an entire day.
  If you're in the mood for a fast food salad, head to McDonald's. Its
  Chunky Chicken Salad contains a single teaspoon of fat and 1/4
  teaspoon of saturated fat. 5. Swanson Great Starts Scrambled Eggs &
  Sausage with Hash Browns. This measly 6 1/2-ounce breakfast will slap
  you with more than half the fat you should eat in a day.  And Swanson
  won't even say how much saturated fat and cholesterol it contains.
  You'd be better off skipping breakfast entirely. For a healthier
  microwave morning, have a Healthy Choice English Muffin Breakfast.
  At just one teaspoon of fat per serving and 15 to 20 mg of
  cholesterol (it contains egg whites, not yolks), it's a far
  "healthier" choice. 6. Oscar Mayer Lunchables. It would be hard to
  invent a worse food than these combos of heavily processed meat,
  artery-clogging cheese, and mostly white-flour crackers. The line
  averages 5 1/2 teaspoons of fat (that's 55 percent of calories) and
  1,517 mg of sodium. You'd get less fat and salt from two slices of
  Pizza Hut's Pepperoni Pan Pizza. 7. Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream.  Gourmet
  ice creams like Haagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry's are loaded with grease.
  A one-cup serving has as much artery-clogging saturated fat as 1/4
  cup of lard.  Choose an ice milk like Breyers Light and you'll cut
  the fat by 75 percent.  Buy Sealtest Free or Edy's or Dreyer's Fat
  Free and you'll get rid of almost all the fat. 8. Campbell Chunky
  Soups.  They're brimming with salt. An average 9-ounce serving
  contains 975 mg of sodium.  That's half your quota for an entire day.
  If you're looking for more than salty water, check out Pritikin
  Soups. A cup has 160 mg of sodium and less than one gram of fat.
  That's a bit less fat - and far less sodium than you'll find in
  Campbell's Healthy Request or ConAgra's Healthy Choice Soups. 9.
  Swanson Hungry Man Turkey Pot Pie. If you think that turkey products
  are always lower in fat than foods made with beef or pork, you're
  wrong. Crammed into a single pie are 650 calories, 36 grams of fat,
  and 1,470 mg of sodium. That makes it worse than Swanson's Hungry Man
  Beef Pot Pie. 10. Stouffer's Entrees. Despite their popularity,
  Stouffer's entrees get a greater percent of their calories from fat
  (440 percent than any other major line of frozen dinners or entrees.
  Not one of Stouffer's 52 varieties meets our criteria for a "healthy"
  frozen meal. If you want low-sodium, low-fat frozen meals, try Tyson
  Healthy Portions, Healthy Choice Dinners, or Le Menu New American
  Healthy. From the Nutrition Action Healthletter, 1875 Connecticut
  Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009. The only vegetables we found in an
  entire Banquet Vegetable Pie with Chicken were twelve peas, 1/11 of a
  carrot, and 1/12 of a potato. And in a Lean Cuisine Glazed Chicken
  with Vegetable Rice, you'll find just 1/3 of a mushroom, 1/2 ounce of
  green beans, and a teaspoon of onions. That's it for vegetables! Need
  more whole grains in your diet? Don't count on Wheatsworth Stone
  Ground Wheat Crackers, with less than half a tablespoon of
  whole-wheat flour in four crackers. And Prego's "made with Fresh
  Mushrooms" Spaghetti Sauce has only about half a mushroom per serving
  ... that's three mushrooms in the whole jar! This newsletter appears
  to be a culinary Consumer's Guide with products reviewed by brand
  name along with "healthy" recipes (they cite Indian, Mexican and
  Asian recipes) and general tips for eating "healthy". The thing I got
  was a special promotion months of the newsletter for ten bucks or 17
  bucks for 20 issues. As a bonus you get a couple of charts. One is
  called "Chemical Cuisine" and lists various food additives along with
  their relative safety. The other is a "Nutritional Scoreboard" that
  lists foods along with their relative nutritional values. I'm going
  to subscribe for ten bucks how far wrong could I go? Oh yeah - if you
  don't like the publication, you can cancel at any time and get a
  complete refund. If'n you're interested, the subscription address is:
  CSPI/Nutrition Action Healthletter, P.O. Box 96611, Washington, D.C.
  20077-7212 Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; August 18 1993.
  
  From: Bill Swisher                    Date: 11-19-08
 
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