Andy Bellatti
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Las Vegas, NV, United States
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Opposing Soda Taxes, For a Price
When dietitians get paid to tweet against soda taxes, it’s a good sign that something larger is going on. → Read More
Are Natural Sweeteners Actually Healthier than Sugar?
Are agave nectar, stevia, etc., actually healthier for you than sugar? → Read More
The Woman Fighting to Make Sustainability Part of the American Diet
Dr. Miriam Nelson was a key figure behind the effort to work sustainability into the nation’s dietary guidelines. → Read More
Was 2015 the Year Big Food Began to Lose Its Sway?
Coca-Cola and Monsanto were called out for conflicts of interest. Will transparency might become the new normal? → Read More
Was 2015 the Year Big Food Began to Lose Its Sway? by Andy Bellatti —
Companies like Coca-Cola and Monsanto were called out for conflicts of interest, leaving many in the public health sector to wonder if next year transparency might become the new normal. → Read More
2015: The Beginning of a Paradigm Shift for Big Food and Agriculture?
Companies like Coca-Cola and Monsanto were called out for conflicts of interest this year, and transparency might just become the new normal. → Read More
Red Meat Isn't as Deadly as Cigarettes, But Here's Why You Should Heed the WHO's Warning
The media frenzy over the World Health Organization's recent red meat announcement might be overblown, but the core message is still worth listening to. → Read More
Marion Nestle’s War on Soda
In her new book, Soda Politics, the nutrition expert lays bare the soda industry’s powerful and harmful tactics. → Read More
10 Food Swaps to Help You Live Healthy
Small, nutrition-focused tweaks to your dietary habits can reap many health rewards. Check out these swaps to boost the nutrition of your meals and snacks. → Read More
OPINION: Big Food’s no-additives push is misdirection
Recent announcements are piecemeal, arbitrary decisions often made for cosmetic reasons → Read More
The 5 Biggest Food Fights of 2014
Nothing important changes without a fight. And in the world of food politics, 2014 brought quite a few battles and a respectable amount of real-world change for the better. Behold, the year’s top food fights: 1. Big Mayonnaise vs. Eggless Mayo Hampton Creek—the Bay Area-based food technology company that has acquired over $120 million in... Read More → Read More
Nutrition Label 2.0: Bigger, Bolder, Better
These changes are undoubtedly a victory for health advocates. As First Lady Michelle Obama put it: "This is a big deal, and it's going to make a big difference for families all across this country." They could also create a crisis for the f... → Read More
Box Tops Help Big Food's Bottom Line
The educational environment should not serve as a blank canvas for food industry advertisers. While Box Tops for Education may appear to be a philanthropic effort, it is yet another example of industry's incessant and predatory -- and worse, school-sanctioned -- marketing to children. → Read More
Yes, You Can Lose Weight Eating Nothing But McDonald's, But That's Not the Point
Privilege is ultimately front and center here. Mr. Cisna could have stopped his fast-food diet at any point. Many Americans, however, are beholden to unhealthy eating out of necessity. We owe it to them to help build a healthier food system, rather than hold up fast-food chains as beacons of health while simultaneously chastising individuals for making "bad choices." → Read More
The Year in Food: McD's, Big Food Tweets, Great Reads, and GMO Seeds
This time around, I pay homage to high school yearbooks and take a look back at the year in food and nutrition via superlatives. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you... the class of 2013. → Read More
Coca-Cola's Plan To Keep You From Drinking Water
"Cap the Tap" is a perfect example of the doublespeak that Big Food and Big Soda often employ. The carefully calculated veneer of wanting to be "part of the solution" and "offering choices" to consumers is negated by efforts like this one, which basically paints tap water as an enemy. → Read More
What You Don't Know About Processed Food
Writer Melanie Warner, whose new behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-world-of-processed-foods book, Pandora's Lunchbox, is out this week, spent the past year and a half investigating how processed foods are actually made. → Read More
The Big Oversight in Our Obesity Conversation
My biggest concern is that solely focusing on weight impedes the health movement's progress. Such a clinical and quantitative frame gives very little thought to -- and leaves no room for a conversation about -- socio-political and environmental factors that pose a threat to our health. → Read More
How The Obesity Focus Hurts the Health Movement
The "war on obesity" is in desperate need of reframing and reconceptualization if it hopes to progress and fix some gargantuan wrongs. → Read More
Let's put an end to 'dietary tribalism'
Vegan, paleo, raw, locavore -- who can say what's best? One writer says concerned eaters should put down their weapons and work to change the food system together. → Read More