Posts Tagged ‘consumer choice’

FDA Plans to Require Front-of-Pack Labels. Hooray?

January 18, 2025 — In the midst of lot of news about obesity this week came a pretty big announcement from FDA. The agency is proposing to require front-of-pack nutrition labels for most packaged foods in the U.S. FDA is optimistic. Food policy advocates are cheering. This will be a big opportunity to reduce obesity says FDA: The U.S. […]

Whole Foods CEO: Poor People + Stupid Choices = Obesity

September 28, 2020 — The CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, is offering up wisdom for the world on obesity in the New York Times. The whole world is getting fat, he says. But according to him, it’s definitely not a problem of access to healthful foods: “People have got to become wiser about their food choices. And if […]