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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