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December 8th, 2009
Medical Minutes: I’m Dr Art Hister popping with news
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI, is a group that seems
to hate nearly everything we enjoy eating, so every year, the CSPI releases
another report condemning something else most of us love to gobble, like Italian
food, Chinese food, and this year, movie theatre popcorn, which the CSPI first
trained its bazookas on a few years ago in a report about too much saturated
fat in popcorn, a report that happily resulted in many movie theatres switching
to unsaturated oil to soak into their popcorn, but that apparently wasn’t enough,
so this year, the CSPI re-blasted movie theatre popcorn for still being a terribly
unhealthy treat because it’s loaded with fats (hey, canola oil is still oil),
calories, and the worst culprit, I think, salt.
But if you ask me, the CSPI should perhaps relax a bit, because if you go to
the movies and you also have a brain, the only way you can sit through the Twilight
Saga or 2012 without puking is to munch lots of popcorn to take your mind off
the real garbage on the screen.
I’m Dr Art Hister
