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How salty is too salty? A look at high-sodium menu items

A new study identifies restaurant menu items high in sodium and explores how menu warning label policies could be designed to lower salt consumption.

SodiumAugust 26, 2024Zachary Goldstein, MS
sugar

It’s time for chain restaurants to tell the #SweetTruth

As a public health nutritionist, I have had the opportunity to work closely with communities, teaching people about the role that nutrition plays in shaping and supporting our health. Over the years I have watched people take and apply these learnings and transform their lives and improve the health of themselves and their families.

Sugary DrinksAugust 16, 2021DeAnna Nara
Sweet Excess

New Yorkers support warning icons on chain restaurant sugary drinks

More than three-quarters of New York state residents (78 percent) support government-required warnings on chain restaurant menu items with more than a day’s worth of added sugars. The support is consistently high across all demographic and political groups, according to a new poll conducted by Engine Insights.

Sugary DrinksJuly 8, 2021
Sugar packets

New York added sugars warning label poll

Sugary Drinks

Largest restaurant chains consistently serve up drinks with more than a day’s worth of added sugars

Our survey, conducted in March 2021, found that the largest chains consistently serve up drinks with more than a day’s worth of added sugars, indicating a strong need for added sugars icons to inform consumers and encourage chains to reduce the added sugars sold in drinks.

Sugary Drinks

CSPI Amicus Brief in ABA v. San Francisco

Lawyers for the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Public Good Foundation filed this amicus curiae brief in support of the city and county of San Francisco in its litigation over proposed warning messages on advertisements for soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages.

Sugary Drinks

Letter to Dr. Vivek Murthy, nominee for U.S. Surgeon General, re: Labeling of alcoholic beverages

The Alcoholic Beverage Labeling Act of 1988 (ABLA) establishes a process for the Treasury Department’s Alcohol Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), “in consultation with the Surgeon General,” to report to Congress on the need for updates to the health warning statement on alcoholic beverages if available scientific information would justify a change. The following presents the evidence and rationale for requiring a cancer warning on alcohol products sold in the United States, and for rotating that warning message with existing warnings on drinking while pregnant and operating machinery.

Food Safety

Consumers deserve truth on sugary drinks despite appeals court ruling

Sugary DrinksJanuary 31, 2019
Sodium warning label

Philadelphia menu sodium warning bill makes sense, says CSPI

Legislation introduced today in the Philadelphia City Council to let consumers know when they are about to buy a menu item with extreme levels of sodium could make a real contribution to the public’s health.

January 25, 2018Peter Lurie, MD, MPH
New York City’s Sodium Warnings to Stay on Menus

New York City’s sodium warnings to stay on menus

Healthy EatingFebruary 10, 2017
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