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Vegemite, blue cheese, jams under threat due to salt, fat, sugar content
VEGEMITE, blue cheese and traditional jams and preserves could be forced off grocery shelves if a government taskforce wins Canberra's support for new limits on salt, fat and sugar content.
AFGC director for health, nutrition and scientific affairs Geoffrey Annison said food such as Vegemite, which is high in salt, could be among the casualties if food content were regulated. "Vegemite without salt is not Vegemite," he said.
Sugar-rich preserves and jams, and even high-fat products such as soft cheeses and cooking oils, could be banned for health reasons, Dr Annison warned.
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Obama's Gupta: A Surgeon General Who Backs an Obesity Tax
Media analyst Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post reported on Jan. 6 that President-elect Barack Obama has asked CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next surgeon general.
According to Kurtz’s column, Gupta, a neurosurgeon who has worked as a CNN and CBS medical correspondent, “told administration officials that he wants the job.”
A look into the Business & Media Institute archives revealed that Gupta thinks iPods are potentially dangerous to “breathe,” tax increases are okay for the sake of the war on obesity, and the federal food grant program WIC isn’t large enough.
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[They're already here, and we'll need decide: government as parent, or freedom of choice. Silence will be a vote for 'parent'.]
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