CSPI BEING BAD AGAIN
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- Jerry D Mead - 01-06-1999 I'm leaving in all the propoganda about the source of this story so that Rich won't get mad that I ripped off his story for circulation. It's importance demands the largest possible audience. JDM Richard Cartiere's WINE MARKET REPORT Volume Two,Issue One January 6, 1999 Editor & Publisher: Richard Cartiere Visit our Online XTRA! News Web site -- http://globalwinenews.com CSPI: Revise U.S. Dietary Guidelines on Drinking Drop "Moderation" Word from Advice; Tell Consumers Alcohol 'Potentially Addictive Drug' The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which claims partial credit for a recent recommendation by a scientific panel that alcohol be listed as a carcinogen, has begun a campaign to add more restrictive language on drinking to the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. CSPI argues-in a 16-page letter to the advisory panel that will decide any language changes to the guidelines for the year 2000-that the wine industry is using the guidelines as part of a "drink for your health" marketing strategy. "In our opinion, the Wine Institute, and possibly the other alcoholic beverage marketers, will take advantage of every possible opening to portray the consumption of alcoholic beverages as a 'healthy choice' for consumers," the letter states. Changes made in 1995 to the guidelines adding statements that drinking moderately was not unhealthy. The guidelines have been the cornerstone of the wine industry's efforts to educate the public about scientific evidence showing that one-to-two glasses of wine per day can lead to a longer and healthier life. The move by CSPI assures that the wine-health debate will be the most contentious public policy issue in 1999 for vintners. Alcohol control advocates plan to couple the wine-health issue with a simultaneous campaign to restrict alcohol-related advertising. "We need a policy [on alcohol advertising] that mirrors those we've imposed on tobacco," George Hacker, CSPI's alcohol policies director, told the Washington Times last week. CSPI's new campaign over the guidelines asks the panel to: Þ Drop the word "moderation" from the alcohol section, which reads: "If you drink...do so in moderation." CSPI recommends the phrase "no more than one drink per day." Þ Add the phrase: "Alcohol is a potentially addictive drug, and approximately 10% of those who choose to drink will develop alcoholism." Þ Delete the phrase "alcoholic beverages have been used to enhance the enjoyment of meals throughout human history." CSPI calls the statement "gratuitous, unnecessary and irrelevant." Þ Add a statement that one-to-two drinks per day is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer for women. In October of 1997, CSPI published a tract titled Vintage Deception that accused the wine industry of engaging in "commercial propaganda to market wine as a health food." John De Luca, president of the Wine Institute, issued a unusual direct public response: "Our research dissemination is intended to counter the political campaigns that push for higher taxes, trade limitations and advertising restrictions on wine and governmental infringements on constitutional rights." WMR 1 READ MORE ABOUT IT: CSPI's letter is online at http://globalwinenews.com/health - Botafogo - 01-06-1999 Jerry, just this morning on one of the morning news shows they were trumpeting YET ANOTHER study saying that wine was good for you and had a doctor recommending some everyday! Can someone find out which study this was, I seem to remember something about "the biggest and most conclusive yet" but I hadn't had my espresso yet let alone a mind stimulating glass of vino. Roberto Also, Can we get a volunteer to go on the air and challenge that little weasel who runs CSPI to a "lifestyle comparison" on the order of : YOU stay in San Diego, eat tofu, avoid Chinese Food, Movie Popcorn, Meat and Wine, have boring missionary sex once a year with your pasty skinned vegan significant other and I'LL travel the world, eat what I want, drink what I want and have hedonistic pleasure with whomever I want and we'll see who has a better "quality of life". Ready, Set, Go! Off to Rio di Janeiro on Sunday to do MY part, Roberto - Jerry D Mead - 01-07-1999 Rich Cartiere dug up this tidbit too: (apologies for the strange formatting) I've discovered why CSPI is having such a problem with making the connnection between wine and health...this just in... LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A glass and a half of wine a day could help stave off neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, according to research published on Thursday. Italian scientists, reporting in the British journal New Scientist, said a natural chemical produced by vines and concentrated in both grapes and wine triggers a seven-fold increase in the activity and effectiveness of an enzyme called mapkinase. Mapkinase stimulates and regenerates nerve cells. Alberto Bertelli and his team at Milan University said they had tested the chemical -- called reservatrol -- on human neural nerves and found it made the cells grow small extensions through which they could connect with neighbouring cells. According to the team, the process can be replicated in people by drinking a glass and a half of wine a day. ``Reservatrol allows the brain cells to get themselves connected to one another again. It is this reconstruction that which reactivates the ability of the elderly to remember,'' Bertelli said. ``By daily reinforcing these contacts, we can prevent neuro degeneration,'' he added. |