the consumerist

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"Students at two high schools -- one in Cincinnati, OH, the other in Syracuse, NY -- are guinea pigs for a new program that's trying to change the way young people look at veggies, by marketing and selling carrots like they're junk food."
http://consumerist.com/2010/09/ohio-school-puts-carrot-only-vending-machine-in-cafeteria.html

"Last week, we wrote a group called the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine that had produced an ad that made a direct link between McDonald's food and heart disease by showing a corpse in a morgue clutching a partially eaten Big Mac. Believe it or not, McDonald's was not pleased with the TV spot."
http://consumerist.com/2010/09/mcdonalds-slams-ad-equating-big-macs-with-heart-disease.html

"Drinking two cups of water before eating results in consuming 75 to 90 fewer calories per meal on average, a new study finds."
http://consumerist.com/2010/08/drink-water-before-eating-and-consume-fewer-calories.html

"Medical attention does not come from a Cheerios box," Steven Nissen, head of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic, told Forbes. See, one of the biggest trends in the food industry are these so-called "functional foods," water that helps you sleep, yogurt that regulates your digestion, pomegranate juice that cures cancer, etc. But most of the claims are bogus, or at best, misleading, and the FDA is cracking down.
http://consumerist.com/2010/08/foods-pretending-to-be-drugs.html