http://www.democraticunderground.com/101757862

"You're are the reason," President Obama in Golden, CO.
September 13, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/business/mylan-invests-in-epipen-as-child-allergies-increase.html?pagewanted=all

September 7, 2012
Tiny Lifesaver for a Growing Worry
By KATIE THOMAS

It has become an all-too-familiar story in schools across the country: a child eats a peanut or is stung by a bee and suffers an immediate, life-threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis.

If parents and school authorities know about the allergy and a doctor’s prescription is on file, a nurse can quickly give an injection of epinephrine, saving the child’s life.

But school nurses in many districts face an agonizing choice if a child without a prescription develops a sudden reaction to an undiagnosed allergy. Should they inject epinephrine and risk losing their nursing license for dispensing it without a prescription, or call 911 and pray the paramedics arrive in time?

After a 7-year-old girl died in January in a similar case in Virginia, the state passed a law that allows any child who needs an emergency shot to get one. Beginning this month, every school district in Virginia is required to keep epinephrine injectors on hand for use in an emergency. Illinois, Georgia and Maryland have passed similar laws, and school nurses are pushing for one in Ohio. A lobbying effort backed by Mylan, which markets the most commonly used injector, the EpiPen, made by Pfizer, led to the introduction last year of a federal bill that would encourage states to pass such laws.

Mylan has also lobbied state legislatures around the country directly and is passing out free EpiPens this fall to any qualifying school that wants them.

“When a child is having an anaphylactic reaction, the only thing that can save her life is epinephrine,” said Maria L. Acebal, the chief executive of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network. “911 doesn’t get there fast enough.”

The efforts are an acknowledgment of the rising rates of food allergies among children and a handful of deaths from allergies across the country. In many schools, children carry their own epinephrine injectors in their backpacks to use themselves, if they’re old enough, or the devices are stored on their behalf in nurses’ offices.

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[font style=color:blue]Although no one knows exactly why, the rate of food allergies among children appears to be on the rise.[/font] One survey found that in 2008, one in 70 children was allergic to peanuts, compared with one in 250 in 1997.

“I don’t think it’s overdiagnosis,” said Dr. Scott H. Sicherer, the author of the report and a researcher at the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. “There really seems to be a difference.”

A study last year in the journal Pediatrics found that about one in 13 children had a food allergy, and nearly 40 percent of those with allergies had severe reactions. A recent survey in Massachusetts, where schools are permitted to administer epinephrine to any student, found that one-quarter of students who had to be given the drug for a reaction did not know they had an allergy. But in many schools, employees are not allowed to use epinephrine injectors on children who do not have a prescription.

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http://allergykids.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/a-ripple-of...

A Ripple of Hope: When Courage and Conscience Collide

June 10, 2008
by Robyn O'Brien

I was raised on capitalism and the Wall Street Journal. As a child, my family celebrated the birth of Reaganomics the way one would have celebrated the birth of a child. There was prosperity to be had by all – if only we believed. My father, like so many of his era, fully supported deregulation and the notion of trickle down economics. If we loosen the regulatory purse strings that government tightly controls, we will all prosper. The system works.

In our house, the Reagans had an almost royal status – to watch them dance, with Nancy in her red dress, gave me the feeling, as a child, that I was watching some magnificent combination of Frank Sinatra and a foreign prince with his graceful companion on his arm.

I trusted my political values would serve me well – I was loyal, patriotic and supported the system.

And then one of my children got sick. With a blood condition that no one could pronounce and a pediatric mandate requiring immediate enrollment at a Children's Hospital. And I awoke.

Suddenly, everywhere I turned, there were sick children. Children with diabetes, children with cancer, children with obesity, children with asthma and children with allergies. What had happened?

As headlines in the paper warned me of environmental dangers, I began to pay attention. What was in the food? Wasn't organics a left-leaning thing? And what about the plastics and the baby bottles and the vaccines? Should I worry? Doesn't our system protect us from these dangers?

And without realizing it, an internal battle had silently begun.

I lay awake at night as I tried to reconcile the loyalty I had to my father with the loyalty I had to my children. Had a generation of grandfathers failed to recognize the health risks associated with capitalism's profits, unintentionally jeopardizing the well being of their grandchildren?

I had been raised to support the system, to believe in it, to never question it, and certainly to never speak out. Activism was something that "radicals" did, certainly not conservative soccer moms.

But I couldn't shake the internal dialogue. And armed with an MBA in finance and my four children, I began to investigate the expanding role that corporations had taken in the system in which I was raised to believe. And I was stunned.

There were insecticidal toxins engineered into crops to increase profitability for the world's largest agrichemical corporation – a company whose former employees included Donald Rumsfeld and Clarence Thomas. There were petroleum based chemicals in my children's toys and shampoos that were a product of an oil corporation that had recruited me in business school. How had this happened? Had we forsaken our physical health for financial wealth?

As I struggled with the responsibility that I felt for betraying my own children, I realized that it was now my responsibility to act. But the internal battle raged on – as the call from my conscience collided with the familiar comfort of conformity – and I was paralyzed.

But with sick children, paralysis was not an option.

I realized that I had to find the courage, on behalf of my children and others, to speak out against the very system in which I was raised.

And I reluctantly stepped forward.

With the words of another crusader in hand, I found my voice: "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls." (Robert F. Kennedy).

It is with that hope, and holding the hands of my four children, that I took a stand.

Our world is changing. Our children's voices are not being heard; there is no "show of hands" to gauge their reactions to the impact that our environment is having on them.

It is our turn to engage, to help our fathers recreate the world that their grandchildren deserve. We must not be daunted by the enormity of the task at hand, nor fear political "activism". For the sake of our children, it is our political responsibility.

If you take just one step forward, it might send forth that tiny ripple of hope that will touch your daughter's life years later or your son's health in ways you might never foresee.

If we dare to dream that it is possible to affect this change for our children, we will be inspired by hope and find the courage and capacity to act. Together.

http://www.robynobrien.com/speaking.html

“Robyn’s analysis is a startling revelation of the corruption of our food supply and our failure to protect two of our country’s most valuable assets, our children and our environment. Her message of courage, tenacity and hope is a beacon of light in our toxic world."
—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Robyn recently addressed a crowd of 600 at TEDx Austin and received a standing ovation for her presentation, "Patriotism on a Plate" as seen in the VIDEO:

http://blogs.prevention.com/inspired-bites/2012/05/22/generation-rx-the-changing-landscape-of-childhood/

Generation Rx: The Changing Landscape of Childhood

May 22, 2012 10:26 am Posted by Robyn O'Brien


Childhood appears to be under siege.

From the escalating rates of childhood cancers, to the increasing diagnoses for conditions like autism and allergies, the landscape of childhood has changed, earning our children the title “Generation Rx”.

And this is changing the face of American families and our economy. We already spend 17 cents of every dollar on health care, managing disease. The pharmaceutical companies can’t keep up with demand, and now there are shortages for drugs used to treat cancers and ADHD.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children under the age of 15. The journal Pediatrics has reported that 15% of American girls are expected to begin puberty by the age of 7 (with the number closer to 25% for African American girls) and a growing number of American children struggle with obesity. On top of that, the rate for having food allergies is 59% higher for obese children, with the Centers for Disease Control reporting a 265% increase in hospitalizations related to food allergic reactions. And while not all of those hospitalizations are for our children, what is becoming increasingly obvious is that the health of our children is under siege.

But more often than not, the solution is not found in the medicine cabinet, but in the kitchen.

And as scientific evidence continues to mount, courageously presented by doctors like Mark Hyman, MD, in his groundbreaking book, The Blood Sugar Solution, and pediatric specialists like Dr. Joel Fuhrman and Dr. Alan Greene, about the role that diet and nutrition plays in the health of our children, parents are beginning to take notice.

And as we introduce new foods that are nutrient-dense (meaning full of vitamins and minerals) and try to reduce our loved ones’ exposure to the foods that are nutrient-void (packing mostly artificial ingredients that have been synthetically engineered in laboratories), we are realizing that we have the power to affect remarkable change in the health of our children and families, so that together, we can stem this tide of children flowing into pediatric hospitals being built across the country.

Because while our children may only represent 30 percent of the population, they are 100 percent of our future. And if spending on health care and disease management is viewed as a leading economic indicator, we need to stem this tide before it becomes a tsunami, for the sake of our children, our families, our economy and our country.

I doubt anyone could get anywhere close to the WH at this point if they even hinted that they want to change these policies and start supporting actual democracies...

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Sam Wessels Meets Meets The President

September 1, 2012
Published on Sep 2, 2012 by zidlow

Sam is giving the President the inside scoop on effective campaign strategies. The President is all ears.

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http://truth-out.org/news/item/8023

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/13/367283/hawaiian-guitarist-wears-occupy-with-aloha-shirt-while-playing-for-obama-other-world-leaders/?mobile=nc

Hawaiian Guitarist Wears ‘Occupy With Aloha’ Shirt While Playing For Obama, Other World Leaders

By Zaid Jilani on Nov 13, 2011 at 1:56 pm


The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is currently being held in Honolulu, Hawaii, bringing together many of the world’s leaders in both the public and private sectors. Last night, APEC held a gala attended by President Obama and his wife in addition to a number of other world leaders.

Hawaiian guitarist Makana, who had previously played at the White House in 2009, was slated to play at the gala. Rather than play his normal routine, Makana decided to make a statement. He opened his suit jacket to reveal a shirt that read “Occupy Aloha.” He then proceeded to play a protest ballad title “We Are the Many,” wherein he blasted corporate lobbyists and called on Americans to occupy “the streets.” He played this protest song for 45 minutes in a room full of the world’s elite.

He later uploaded a video where he talked about why he did what he did, including some footage of him playing for the world leaders. Watch Makana’s video:





“It was an incredible experience to sing those words to that group of people,” said Makana

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/25/president-obama-congressional-black-caucus-foundation-annual-dinner-march-me-and-pre

President Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Dinner: "March with me and press on"

Erin Lindsay
September 25, 2011

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Yesterday evening, the President delivered remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. In his speech, the President stressed the importance of passing the American Jobs Act, to put more people back to work, and more money back in the pockets of people who are working:



More at link.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x781184

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4k8PHiY35VE#t=542s

EXCERPT: "Throughout our history, change has often come slowly. Progress often takes time. We take a step forward, sometimes we take two steps back. Sometimes we get two steps forward and one step back. But it’s never a straight line. It’s never easy. And I never promised easy. Easy has never been promised to us. But we’ve had faith. We have had faith. We’ve had that good kind of crazy that says, you can’t stop marching. (Applause.)

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop. (Applause.) Even when somebody fires you for speaking out, you can’t stop. (Applause.) Even when it looks like there’s no way, you find a way — you can’t stop. (Applause.) Through the mud and the muck and the driving rain, we don’t stop. Because we know the rightness of our cause — widening the circle of opportunity, standing up for everybody’s opportunities, increasing each other’s prosperity. We know our cause is just. It’s a righteous cause.

So in the face of troopers and teargas, folks stood unafraid. Led somebody like John Lewis to wake up after getting beaten within an inch of his life on Sunday — he wakes up on Monday: We’re going to go march. (Applause.)

Dr. King once said: “Before we reach the majestic shores of the Promised Land, there is a frustrating and bewildering wilderness ahead. We must still face prodigious hilltops of opposition and gigantic mountains of resistance. But with patient and firm determination we will press on.” (Applause.)

So I don’t know about you, CBC, but the future rewards those who press on. (Applause.) With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. (Applause.) I’m going to press on for equality. (Applause.) I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. (Applause.) I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on. (Applause.)

I expect all of you to march with me and press on. (Applause.) Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. (Applause.) Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do, CBC. (Applause.)

God bless you, and God bless the United States of America." (Applause.)

http://protect.org/campaigns/current/685-alicias-law

Alicia's Law: Virginia

Brief Description:  Rescuing children from sexual predators, traffickers and child pornographers state by state.  Alicia's Law is a state initiative that builds state capacity to combat crimes against children.  Versions of Alicia's Law have been enacted in California, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia.

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Legislative Campaigns of PROTECT

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When Americans have a special interest they are serious about, they spare no expense to defend it. In 2010, special interests spent over $19 million per day on lobbyists.*

But there have never been deep pockets sending lobbyists to defend the most important "special interest" of all: abused and exploited children.

That's why PROTECT was created. Since 2002 we've been on the front lines in state legislatures and in Washington, fighting aggressively for the protection of children, with a small staff, a modest budget and a growing army of volunteers. PROTECT, a sister organization to the National Association to Protect Children, is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit.

We're conservatives and liberals united. We don't play charity softball. We play political hardball, because the stakes could not be higher. And we win.

* Source: Center for Responsive Politics

http://protect.org/component/content/article/1196

[center]OPEN LETTER TO ICAC's - National Association to Protect Children[/center]

Tuesday, 23 November 2010 09:50


Dear Friend:

Police work and politics have a lot in common.

I've known cops who knew more about turf fighting than any political operative. Most could walk into a university and deliver a Ph.D. lecture series on how the American justice system really works.  And there is no t.v. "reality show" that touches what a veteran detective has seen going on behind the doors of society's wealthy and powerful.

So you might be able to imagine what our jobs are like at PROTECT. We battle Congress, state government and law enforcement bureaucracies to get Internet Crimes Against Children task forces like yours more resources. We stand at the intersection of your world and the political world.

There are three things our friends in the ICAC community know about us. First, we don't take government money. That makes our motives pretty clear: we want you to get the money. Second, we play hardball when we have to, because most of the time that's the only way you'll ever see a dime. Third, we believe what you're doing—tracking child pornography back through the Internet to take out predatory pedophiles and rescue children—is the most urgent and effective work anyone has ever done to stop the plague of child sexual abuse. 



That's why I'm asking you to have our back.

They said what?

Recently, two of PROTECT's best warriors, David Keith and Camille Cooper, met with two Texas philanthropists to ask for their help. We wanted them to back us in the Lone Star state and in Washington, as we fought to secure more government funding for ICACs and stronger child protection laws. These individuals have given generously to various child abuse charities, and we wanted to show them the incredible payback that comes from fighting to put more resources into your hands. 



They made a call to a law enforcement acquaintance, a connected guy you might know, with ties to the Department of Justice. His inside scoop? Steer clear of PROTECT. His friends in Washington say we're too combative, not with the program. And besides, he added, this child pornography problem has been way overblown.

Now, Teddy Roosevelt once said that "aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords." That's one of our mottoes around PROTECT, so we can cheerfully handle cheap shots like this and come back swinging. Our supporters are serious about this fight. But with so many new ICAC professionals coming into the field, and with so many of our old veteran friends retiring and moving on, we want to make sure you and your allies know the truth about PROTECT, from the horse's mouth.

Our Record

In 2006, total ICAC funding nationwide was $14.5 million. That was the year that PROTECT testified before Texas Congressman Joe Barton's Energy and Commerce committee, watching in outrage as one law enforcement officer after another followed orders and thanked Congress for the pittance it gave the ICACs, FBI, ICE and Postal. None of you could tell the truth about how desperate you were for help.

Rep. Barton (a Republican) railed at the Bush Justice Department, telling them they were trying to put out a forest fire with an aerosol can. He practically begged DOJ to ask Congress for serious funding increases. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President George Bush sent lip service instead of cash.

Since then, here's what PROTECT has done:

Working with then Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Rep. Barton (R-TX), we got the PROTECT Act passed, authorizing $60 million a year for ICACs, along with a lot more (link).

Within a few years, we drove ICAC funding from $14.5 million to $30 million. This year, the FY11 federal budget (now stuck in Congress) doubles that ICAC budget to the full $60 million. We'll fight until that's in your bank accounts.

Remember the $50 million in Recovery Act funding for the ICACs? The one that every politician and his brother claimed credit for? Not one dollar of that would have been contemplated, much less appropriated, if it were not for PROTECT. We went to pro-child, anti-crime champion Sen. Barbara Mikulski asking for ICACs to share in the stimulus program, then put together the proposal that resulted in that funding. That money has saved a lot of little children. Maybe it saved your job too.

In 2007, PROTECT exposed the fact that the FBI was diverting several million from the Innocent Images National Initiative's meager $10 million appropriation. Under withering questioning before a Congressional committee, an FBI official promised to give it back. Last year, Innocent Images received over $50 million from Congress.

PROTECT also exposed budget raiding behind the scenes that was taking desperately-needed funds from another federal law enforcement agency engaged in combating child exploitation. Today, the money is flowing back to them.

In California, PROTECT secured $1 million in new ICAC funding from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger during a year of deep budget cuts. In Tennessee, we doubled the ICAC budget and won new state funding to expand ICAC affiliates across the state. In Virginia, PROTECT’s Alicia’s Law has created the largest state expansion of ICAC support in America, including a permanent dedicated revenue stream from court fees.

And year in and year out, PROTECT keeps pressure on the U.S. Department of Justice. During the past two years, the Obama Justice Department has asked Congress for even less ICAC funding than their predecessors did, despite personal assurances from Attorney General Eric Holder to PROTECT that you were a top priority for him. You aren’t his priority, and he won’t fight for your funding. So who's going to do anything about it? PROTECT.

At the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, where the ICAC program is managed, the professional staff long ago weighed their interest in avoiding PROTECT's demands for accountability against your interest in PROTECT’s demands for more task force funding. You can guess which way their scales tip. Remember that the next time OJJDP staff "warns" you about PROTECT.

Why we win

If you're wondering whether it was really PROTECT who made these things happen, let me put it diplomatically: not only were we (along with members of the Surviving Parents Coalition) the only ones in the political game lifting a finger on your behalf, but we faced constant, behind-the-scenes opposition from privateers, federal bureaucrats, and quasi-governmental operators who wanted your money... or actually considered it their money.

We win because we're a lobby, not a charity, and we don’t have any conflict of interest. Our staff and volunteers asked me to tell you that it's hard, endlessly frustrating work. Do the politicians and law enforcement bureaucrats rally to your aid when we show them proof that children are being raped and tortured, children who could be saved, right now, by their action? As incoming House Majority Leader John Boehner might say, “Hell no they don’t.” The question itself is salt in the wound to anyone who has been in these trenches.

So, that's who we are, and what I think we are to you. Many ICAC professionals are right out there with us, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder. Others are great friends in private, but a little more nervous we'll get them in hot water with their federal government funders. Some of you we haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet.

Regardless, anyone who knows us will tell you (even those federal bureaucrats) that we keep our confidences, we are sensitive to the position you're in politically, and we don't play cop.



We’re not asking for thanks. You’re the ones who go home at night with sounds in your head of children screaming. You’re the ones who pull children out of hell. We just want you to know the truth about who we are and what we do.


In friendship,




Grier Weeks


Executive Director

PROTECT

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/08/kids-cholestorol-trans-fat

Food Industry Ditches Trans Fats, Kids' Cholesterol Levels Drop

By Tom Philpott| Tue Aug. 21, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

"0 grams trans fats." That promise appears prominently on packaging for that classic American junk food, the Lay's Potato Chip. McDonald's iconic French fries? Trans-fat free—as are its Chicken McNuggets.

It wasn't always thus. As recently as 2006, journalist Nina Teicholz could report that consuming a large order of McDonald's fries and McNuggets in one sitting meant taking in nearly 10 grams of trans fats, a "substance considered so unhealthy that the National Academy of Sciences concluded, in 2002, that the only safe amount of trans fats in the diet is zero."

Trans fats are made through a process known as partial hydrogenation—basically, when you add hydrogen to ordinary vegetable oil, it becomes solid at room temperature, making it a cheap substitute for butter.

According to Teicholz, probably the journalist most responsible for exposing the ill effects of the once-ubiquitous, now-scarce substance, "A daily intake of five grams of trans fats increases the risk of contracting heart disease 4 percent to 28 percent."

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Teicholz reported trans-fat production was dominated by agribusiness giants Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, and Bunge. These companies ran a trade group called the Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils (ISEO), which "for decades" worked "behind the scenes to squelch bad news about trans fats." Teicholz reported:

As far back as 1968, the ISEO was mentioned in an internal memo written by the medical director of the American Heart Association: According to the memo, the ISEO objected to the AHA’s intention to include a warning about trans fats in its dietary guidelines; subsequently, the AHA took it out.

And the food industry, too, actively sought to repress research showing trans fats' ill effects. According to Teicholz, independent-minded scientists examining the topic had to "deal with the tidal wave of industry pressure unleashed against them at meetings, conferences, and events. Their papers were rebutted with unusual ferocity, and their research funding was scarce." The pressures came from the industry's highest levels:

With independent science about its health effects virtually nil, trans fats took on a healthy sheen, promoted by a food industry that was happy to have found a cheap replacement for butter that also worked well in deep frying. By the '70s, "margarine manufacturers used the slogan 'Healthy for Your Heart' and marketed the product like a drug to doctors," Teicholz reported. 

Meanwhile, damage to public health was severe. Teicholz cited Harvard epidemiologist Walter Willett, who reckoned that "of the half million Americans who die prematurely each year from heart disease—the leading cause of death in this country—at least 30,000 are killed by trans fats."

The breaking point came in 2002, when a panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences produced a scathing report on the effect of trans fats. Spurred by the NAS document, the FDA had little choice but to move on labeling, which it began to require in 2006. Then came bans on using trans fats in restaurants in New York City, Philadelphia, and California. The drop in trans fat consumption was swift—a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that trans-fat levels in the blood of white adults plunged by 58 percent between 2000 to 2009. (The fats the industry has seized upon to replace trans fats, palm oil and interesterificated vegetable oil, may present their own problems, both to health and the environment, but that is a topic for another post.)

Although a long time in coming, the melting away of trans fats in the American diet shows that progress can be made—that when independent science can cut through industry-induced fog, and when regulators are compelled to do their job—the American diet can improve. But as the Journal of the American Medical Association article shows, things are still dire. Kids' cholesterol levels are coming down, the article notes, but obesity and overweight levels remain stubbornly high.

That unhappy fact, I think, stems from another practice the food industry picked up in the late '70s—adding massive amounts of empty sweeteners to processed food. As the journalist Gary Taubes has shown, the food industry has largely managed to bury a growing body of research on the harms of that habit.

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August 1, 2012
Sign Daniel Ellsberg’s petition to free Bradley Manning

Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Bradley Manning Support Network call on you to sign our petition to free Bradley Manning.

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