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“Cheesy” Billboard Discourages Dairy
Sep 27th
First it was a billboard with hot dogs made to look like cigarettes.
Now the playfully serious Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is at it again.
They’ve put up an anti-dairy billboard in the most offensive place possible — on the road to the cheesehead wearing capital of the world: Lambeau Field, home of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers!
The billboard depicts the grim reaper sporting a cheesehead hat (the universal symbol that you’re a fan of the Packers) and the phrase: “Warning: Cheese can sack your health.”
It’s hard to tell if people will find it more funny than offensive, however.
There’s at least one Packers fan in our house that finds it amusing (Ann was raised in Wisconsin and has a cheesehead hat) but cheese is no laughing matter!
We agree with Dr. Joel Fuhrman when he says, “If there was one food that we could wipe out of the American diet and save as many lives as possible, it would be cheese and other dairy products.”
Here’s why…
Casein, the health-deteriorating protein found in meat and dairy, is concentrated in cheese.
True to the grim reaper reference, casein is trouble for your health and worse yet, it’s literally addictive.
In fact, eating casein creates chemical substances which have opium-like activity (ie. morphine/heroin) in the brain.
Furthermore, Dr. T Colin Campbell (author of The China Study and featured in the Forks Over Knives documentary) has proven that casein causes and feeds cancer.
We like what the PCRM is doing here. Humor gets the point across and they’re doing it with brazen guts.
So, take a lesson from the grim reaper — cheese is OK to wear on your head… just don’t put it in your mouth.
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Would you find this billboard offensive?
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Wieners Are Losers
Aug 2nd
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is no stranger to controversy — because they tell the truth.
This time they’ve equated hot dogs to cigarettes on a billboard near the Indianapolis Speedway with the headline:
“Warning: Hot dogs can WRECK your health.”
The hot dogs are positioned like cigarettes in a mock cigarette package.
Is at all just smoke? (pun playfully intended)
Not according to peer reviewed research.
In fact, it’s not just adults who are at risk of developing cancer from processed meats, either.
In a case-control study reported in 1994 it was found that children who typically ate 12 hotdogs or more a month had 9.5 times the risk for childhood leukemia as those who ate less than four hotdogs per month.
That’s a 950% greater risk to put it into perspective.
It gets worse.
Fathers’ typical consumption of 12 hot dogs per month prior to conception also contributed an 11-fold increased risk.
Households where the dad and child both ate 12 or more hotdogs per month
had a 19.8-fold increase in childhood leukemia.
You NEVER hear of 20-fold increases in risk — it’s cause and effect, period.
There’s more…
Processed meats in general are more damaging than normal animal flesh—a meta-analysis of 13 studies showed that 100g of red meat per day led to a 12-17% increase in colorectal cancer.
The report also showed that just 25g of processed meat per day (about one slice of bologna or half of a hot dog) led to a 49% increase in colorectal cancer.
And a recent expert panel report from the American Institute for Cancer Research recommended that processed meats (and sugary drinks) should be avoided completely.
So what’s a hot dog connoisseur to do? Try this health-promoting hot dog recipe instead.
Veggie TV ad creates a stir
Sep 30th
A new advertisement by the Physician Committee for Responsible Medicine (headed by Dr. Neal Barnard) is creating quite a stir. In fact, some Florida television stations are refusing to run it.
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The Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is a nonprofit doctors’ group that promotes vegetarian diets.
McDonald’s begs to differ with the advertisement, calling it “outrageous, misleading and unfair to all consumers.” However, after PCRM sued McDonald’s and other fast-food restaurants for serving carcinogen-containing chicken sandwiches without warning patrons, Burger King has actually agreed to put warning signs in some of its restaurants.
Outlandish or not, it appears as though the squeaky wheel indeed gets the… um.. grease. 
Who knows. Perhaps McDonald’s will take notice and offer some Hallelujah Diet friendly options in the future — we’d be “lovin” that.
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