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CSPI is a consumer advocacy organization. Its focus is nutrition and health, food safety, and alcohol policy. CSPI was founded in 1971 by the microbiologist Michael F. Jacobson, [1] along with the meteorologist James Sullivan and the chemist Albert Fritsch, two fellow scientists from Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law. [2]
The impetus for formation of the committee was a rising concern about hunger and malnutrition in the United States. It had been brought to public attention by the 1967 field trip of Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph S. Clark to see emaciated children in Cleveland, Mississippi, [1] by the 1967 broadcast of the CBS News special Hunger in America, [2] and by the 1968 publication of Citizens ...
The Annual Review of Nutrition defines its scope as covering significant developments in the field of nutrition and its subfields such as macronutrients (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates), bioenergetics, micronutrients, metabolic regulation, nutritional genomics, clinical nutrition, nutritional anthropology, epidemiology, toxicology, and nutrition as it pertains to public health. [6]
Michael F. Jacobson (born July 29, 1943) is an American scientist and nutrition advocate. He holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jacobson co-founded the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in 1971, along with two fellow scientists (James B. Sullivan, Albert J. Fritsch) he met while working at ...
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The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics was founded in 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a group of women led by Seventh-day Adventist Lenna F. Cooper, [13] [14] and the Academy's first president, Lulu G. Graves, for the purpose helping the government conserve food and improve public health during World War I. [1]
Joel Fuhrman (born December 2, 1953) is an American celebrity doctor who advocates a plant-based diet termed the "nutritarian" diet which emphasizes nutrient-dense foods. [1] [2] [3] His practice is based on his nutrition-based approach to obesity and chronic disease, as well as promoting his products and books. [4]
These reformulations can be partly attributed to 2006 Center for Science in the Public Interest class action complaints, and to New York's restaurant trans fat ban, with companies such as McDonald's stating they would not be selling a unique product just for New York customers but would implement a nationwide or worldwide change. [184] [185] [186]