Caffeinated Gum?

As food companies add caffeine to candies, nuts, snacks and other foods, it will be increasingly easy to consume too much caffeine throughout the day.


Risky Meat

CSPI report finds ground beef and chicken to be the riskiest meat and poultry products in the American food supply and pose the greatest likelihood of hospitalization.


Report: Kids' Meals

97% of kids' meals flunk nutrition, as fried chicken fingers, burgers, fries, and soda dominate at chain restaurants.


Big Soda's Selfish Giving

The soda industry uses philanthropy to buy friends, silence critics, and sweeten profits.

WANTED: Nickelodeon

… for impersonating a responsible media company. SpongeBob SquarePants may be armed with nutritionally dangerous foods.

The Real Bears

"The Real Bears" has over 2 million views! Our animated short film exposing soda's unhappy health consequences is a must-see, available in English and Spanish.

Read Michael Jacobson's column on the Huffington Post

Risky Meat: Will Your Meal Send You to the Hospital?

Everyone knows undercooked meat can be a risky proposition. But about 128,000 Americans go to the hospital each year to seek treatment for a potentially deadly infection caused by Salmonella, E. coli or other pathogen. And every year, about 3,000 die.


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