Nutritional Ambitions, Nutritional Worries

E. coli turns up in a healthy food like spinach, and a few hundred people fall ill. Had such bacteria contaminated the nation’s doughnut supply, casualties might have numbered in the millions. Meanwhile, a Good Housekeeping poll indicates the degree to which women see junk food as a menace to public health, and particularly to kids. Sixty-four percent favor banning the sale of junk food in schools; 35 percent back a ban on advertising junk food to kids; 57 percent believe “food companies should create better-tasting, low-sugar, low-fat, high-nutrition foods and beverages.”