[Vision2020] There go our rights again: Ice Cream 'Isn't Health Food'-Study

Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:04:20 -0700

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Those who think that they can take better care of everyone else's bodies
than their own are at it again -- this time with ice cream!

Can someone please tell me why we cannot longer enjoy to eat, drink, and be
merry without someone trying to sue away our rights to do so? 

Best,
Dale Courtney
Moscow, Idaho
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Ice Cream 'Isn't Health Food'-Study

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By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The healthy food watchdog that took all the fun out
of Chinese take-out and movie popcorn has done it again, this time with
summer's favored treat -- ice cream. 

"Everyone knows that ice cream isn't a health food," the Center for Science
in the Public Interest, an independent, nonprofit group, said in a study
released on Wednesday. 

"But the staggering calorie and saturated fat content of most of the treats
served up at chains like Baskin-Robbins, Ben and Jerry's, Cold Stone
Creamery, Friendly's, Haagen-Dazs and TCBY is bound to surprise most
consumers." 

The CSPI said an empty Ben & Jerry's chocolate-dipped waffle cone, designed
to hold at least two scoops of ice cream, itself packs 320 calories and 10
grams or half a day's worth of saturated fat. 

"If you put a regular scoop of Chunky Monkey ice cream in that cone, it is
going to be worse for you than (a) one-pound rack of baby back ribs, with
820 calories and 30 grams of saturated fat," CSPI nutritionist Jayne Hurley
told a news conference to publicize the study. 

"This is something eaten by people strolling around a mall," she added.
"They have no idea they have just eaten 820 calories and one and a half days
worth of saturated fat." 

Haagen-Dazs's Mint Chip Dazzler, a sundae in a cup, has three scoops of ice
cream, fudge, cookies, sprinkles and cream -- and 1,270 calories, the group
said. 

Its 38 grams of fat is more than the day's allowance as calculated by the
U.S. government, which says the average American should eat between 2,000
and 2,500 calories a day. 

The CSPI called on restaurants and ice cream parlors to list the fat and
calorie content of food on menus. 

The CSPI's Michael Jacobson said the report supported his group's argument
that restaurants carry at least some responsibility for the obesity epidemic
in the United States. 

More than two-thirds of Americans are overweight and 30 percent are obese,
both of which raise the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other
big killers. 

"It is clear that companies are using every means that they can devise to
get us to eat more and bigger products and therefore to spend more in their
shops," Jacobsen said. "The least they can do, the least they must do, is
provide customers with factual information." 

Ben & Jerry's spokeswoman Chrystie Heimert said calorie and nutritional
information is available online or in notebooks kept in stores, but it is
hard to calculate how much each customer gets from a cone with various
toppings. 

"It would be tough to provide that information since it's a kind of
scooper's choice," she said in a telephone interview. Asked if she knew that
a chocolate-dip waffle cone contained 320 calories, she responded: "Well
yes, but I may not be the right person to ask because I work for an ice
cream company." 

Jacobson said even food that is labeled contains hidden fat. "Cold Stone
Creamery offers fat-free frozen yogurt, or so they would have you believe,"
Jacobson said. CSPI tests showed a small, 7 ounce serving contained 11 grams
of fat and 7 grams of artery-clogging saturated fat. 

"Ice cream is an indulgent dessert, and like any indulgence, is meant be
enjoyed in moderation," Cold Stone Creamery spokesman Kevin Donnellan
responded in a statement. 

Baskin-Robbins is owned by British food and drink group Allied Domecq Plc,
Anglo-Dutch group Unilever owns Ben & Jerry's and Haagen-Dazs is marketed by
Swiss food giant Nestle . 

In the past CSPI has put out reports publicizing the health-threatening
qualities of other popular foods, including Chinese take-out meals, burgers
and popcorn. 

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<P><FONT face=3DArial>Ben &amp; Jerry's spokeswoman Chrystie Heimert =
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Haagen-Dazs is marketed by Swiss food giant Nestle . 

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