Michael Jacobson Quotes (21 Quotes)

The agency has had so much turnover in the top spot, and turmoil throughout, that it could have benefited from a period of steady leadership. The country doesn't need a rudderless FDA.

Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.

I care about my child's health at home. I want the schools to care about my child's health when my child is under their care.

The risk to a given individual from having some saccharin-sweetened soda or coffee is really trivial. It's when you multiply that times 200 million people that the risk becomes much more significant.

My Pyramid for Kids doesn't dare to discourage children from consuming so much soda, fast food, candy, and other junk foods.

Back then, saccharin was the only artificial sweetener available. Some people really wanted it, and industry certainly wanted to continue making Tab. So saccharin was let off the hook.

Hospitals should be setting examples for the community, setting the pace, even creating the market for healthier products. These are health institutions. They should be promoting health.

Having the word 'limit' sends a much stronger signal. We wanted the guidelines to include the limit of Department of Agriculture already recommends, which is 10 teaspoons a day.

This information on the package is useful, but it doesn't offer people an opportunity to compare products, ... Having it on the menu board would spur a lot of people to switch to a smaller order of fries, a diet soda, or a regular hamburger instead of a cheeseburger, for instance.

The industry has had decades to clean up its act, but instead it has only intensified its marketing.

Nickelodeon and Kellogg engage in business practices that literally sicken our children. It's a multimedia brainwashing and re-education campaign -- and a disease-promoting one at that.

Their weight is front and center. And it's a far greater risk to their health than these artificial sweeteners.

Even the most careful consumers, consumers with nutrition degrees, can scrutinize labels and have no idea how much sugar is added and how much comes from the fruit or dairy product.

I think the attitude in the U. S. is changing. A lot of policy makers are opening up to that sort of thinking, ... But there's not a lot of money for programs like that, and the Canadian system is much smaller than ours.

Denmark has in effect banned partially hydrogenated oil Canada is considering it. The United States ought to do the same.

It's almost worthless. I don't think the word soda pop is mentioned anywhere in these materials, even though it's the No. 1 source of calories for Americans.

A far better step would be to provide calorie counts right on the menu board, so consumers would have that one critical piece of information before they placed their order.

Parents do bear the primary responsibility to ensure their kids eat a healthy diet. But the food industry is making their jobs nearly impossible. The industry needs to accept its fair share of the responsibility.

Columbus is about to become the diarrhea capitol of the nation,

would help Americans reduce their risk of heart disease.

We used to file all sorts of complaints with the government. Sometimes we'd get a response, but usually nothing happened. Now, when we have told companies that we're going to sue them, they show up in our offices the next week.