Kaye Spector
Digital Journalist / Writer / Editor
A few stories from The Plain Dealer ...
Healthy-eating advocates seek ways to fight advertising that promotes unhealthy food and drinks to kids
By Kaye Spector, Published October 1, 2010 in The Plain Dealer
Science has yet to prove indisputably that food marketing is a direct cause of the climbing childhood obesity rate. But with one in every three U.S. youngsters ages 2 to 19 overweight or obese, food marketing to children is coming under increasing scrutiny.
Cleveland looks to streamline process for food truck entrepreneurs
​By Kaye Spector, Published November 9, 2010 in The Plain Dealer
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The city of Cleveland is putting together legislation to simplify the permit process for food trucks so they can develop here as they have in other big cities. At the same time, Cleveland wants to balance the concerns of restaurateurs, some of whom see food trucks -- with their inexpensive gourmet fare and low overhead -- as unfair competition.
Study finds reusable grocery bags can harbor dangerous bacteria
By Kaye Spector, Published July 25, 2010 in The Plain Dealer
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Those reusable, fabric shopping bags may be kind to the environment, but they may not be good for your family's health -- if you don't wash them. A study, in which researchers randomly tested 84 reusable grocery bags carried by shoppers in Tucson, Los Angeles and San Francisco, found that more than half were contaminated with food-borne bacteria. Twelve percent of the contamination was E. coli, a bacterium that can cause food poisoning.