Stories by Michele Simon
Michele Simon, a public-health attorney who teaches health policy at UC Hastings College of the Law, is director of the Center for Informed Food Choices, a nonprofit in Oakland, Calif.
Disney says it's concerned about kids' eating habits. But the company can't turn down the huge profits associated with helping junk-food companies market to children.
Posted on Oct 19, 2006
Litigation may be the one weapon left in the fight against corporate America's fattening of children.
Posted on Feb 1, 2006
The fast-food chain says it will tell diners just how much fat, sodium and calories are in its food. But this is just the latest attempt to whitewash its unhealthy practices.
Posted on Nov 5, 2005
The trade group responsible for pushing sugary drinks to children of all ages has just trumpeted another set of useless new guidelines.
Posted on Aug 29, 2005
A government-convened panel that was intended to discuss ways to limit marketing junk food to kids instead became an enormous PR opportunity for the junk food industry.
Posted on Jul 22, 2005
The junk-food industry's lobbyists are working hard to make sure sodas, candy and fast food are cheap and plentiful in the nation's schools.
Posted on Jun 17, 2005
The very definition of food has been transformed by industry, yet the federal government's dietary guidelines don't reflect that.
Posted on Feb 1, 2005
