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Fight Fruit Snack Fraud

  Fruit snacks are such a fraud.  Passing off sugary candy as snacks for kids? As Bridgette Kidd, MPH, RD, LD put it: Fruit snacks are the epitome of a healthwashed product. That’s because packaging...

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Parents Call Foul on Super Bowl Junk Food Ads

My latest piece for Beyond Chron is about last night’s junk food Super Bowl ads. Coca-Cola and McDonald’s are two companies with slipping sales who are looking for Super Bowl advertising wins on Sunday...

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Learning to Love Family Dinner

  Family dinner wasn’t love at first sight for us but in this guest post for The Family Dinner Project, I explain how we learned to love it.  Be sure to check out their resources to make family dinner...

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Big Soda’s on the Offensive to Stop a Seattle Soda Tax

  On February 19th, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee singled out added sugars as a major concern because of links to obesity and chronic disease. According to the panel, “Higher...

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Partners in Junk Food Crime

   Plastered on the PlayPlace window of my local McDonald’s is a giant Coca-Cola decal.  McDonald’s uses these play areas to attract families with children to their restaurants while also using them as...

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Retire Ronald

 Here is my letter to the editor about McDonald’s that was published in the Washington Post: In her March 3 op-ed column, “The tarnished arches,” Catherine Rampell brought much-needed attention to the...

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FNV: Why I’m Not A Fan

  The big announcement from the recent Partnership for a Healthier America Summit was a marketing campaign for fruits and vegetables called “FNV.” It was celebrated by First Lady Michelle Obama, who...

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When the Experts Fail Us

   Parents are trying to raise healthy kids and we need health organizations to be our allies instead of selling us out. That was the point I tried to make when New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom...

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Recap: Two Years of #MomsNotLovinIt

  This Mother’s Day marks the two year anniversary of #MomsNotLovinIt. That’s when I joined with other mothers in campaigning against McDonald’s unethical marketing to children. While many health...

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What Moms and Teachers Said at McDonald’s Shareholders Meeting

  For the second year in a row I attended the McDonald’s shareholders meeting to speak about the corporation’s unethical marketing to children.  I was part of a team organized by Corporate...

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The Don Drapers of Big Macs and Coke

  In what has been dubbed the “Monthly McDonald’s Misery Watch,” the fast food giant reported that May brought in yet another round of slipping sales. The next day, McDonald’s tried to steer the...

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3 Months of “Kids Eat Right” Kraft Singles

  It’s now been more than three months since the “Kids Eat Right” Kraft Singles hit the grocery shelves.   In March, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) angered both parents and health...

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How McTeacher’s Nights and Coke Science Betray Us

  There is a seismic shift taking place in our country with respect to how we view Coca-Cola and McDonald’s. This bodes well for children’s health, because teachers are now speaking out against being...

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#PeopleWhoMadeMy2015

As a parent, I’m constantly reminded that the junk food industry spends billions of dollars to undermine the work I do to keep my children healthy.  Fortunately, there are advocates who help to push...

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Got Concussions? Chocolate Milk Marketing Mania

Give yourself diabetes while you’re trying to fix brain damage? That’s the question that came to mind reading this press release from the University of Maryland titled “Concussion-Related Measures...

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University Backpedals on Chocolate Milk Concussion “Study”

On January 7th, I wrote about a press release promoting an unpublished University of Maryland (UMD) study that recommended a chocolate milk drink to help high school football players recover from...

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Tell Clinton Foundation to Cut Its Ties to Junk Food Corporations

Seeing these pictures promoting Ronald McDonald at the Clinton Center’s Coca Cola exhibit inspired me to start a Change petition: Tell the Clinton Foundation to Cut Its Ties to Junk Food Corporations!...

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Healthy Food America

I’m happy to announce that I’m joining Healthy Food America (HFA), a new nonprofit advocacy, research, and education organization founded by Dr. James Krieger. With a national network of collaborative...

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Why I’m Not at McDonald’s Shareholders Meeting

In 2014 and 2015, I attended the McDonald’s shareholders meetings and asked that they stop using  Ronald McDonald – the Joe Camel of fast food – to market to kids.  I was prepared to disrupt their dog...

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Liberals need to know why Trump’s Yemen catastrophe was a BFD

Donald Trump and Steve Bannon Getty Images. As a vet, please listen when I say Trump can order the military to execute terrible operations & they HAVE to carry them out unless it is illegal or they...

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