![With access to nine universities and twelve junior colleges in an 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) radius, Montreal has the highest concentration of post-secondary students of all major cities in North America (4.38 students per 100 residents, followed by Boston at 4.37 students per 100 residents).[138] There are two anglophone universities in the city: McGill University is one of Canada's oldest universities, and widely recognized as a world-class institution. McGill has consistently been ranked in the to](http://web.archive.org./web/20110822003217im_/http://cdn4.wn.com/pd/83/e8/d52727de274d2caee012dc44df8d_grande.jpg "With access to nine universities and twelve junior colleges in an 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) radius, Montreal has the highest concentration of post-secondary students of all major cities in North America (4.38 students per 100 residents, followed by Boston at 4.37 students per 100 residents).[138] There are two anglophone universities in the city: McGill University is one of Canada's oldest universities, and widely recognized as a world-class institution. McGill has consistently been ranked in the to")
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CSPI has 501(c)(3) status. Its chief source of income is its Nutrition Action Health Letter, which has about 900,000 subscribers and does not accept corporate advertising. The organization receives about 5-10 percent of its $17 million annual budget from grants by private foundations.
In 1989, CSPI was instrumental in convincing fast-food restaurants to stop using animal fat for frying.
In 1998, the Center published a report entitled Liquid Candy: How Soft Drinks are Harming Americans' Health. It examined statistics relating to the soaring consumption of soft drinks, particularly by children, and the consequent health ramifications including tooth decay, nutritional depletion, obesity, type-2 (formerly known as "adult-onset") diabetes, and heart disease. It also reviewed soft drink marketing and made various recommendations aimed at reducing soft drink consumption, in schools and elsewhere. A second, updated edition of the report was published in 2005. Among the actions they advocate taxing soft drinks.
One of the main activities of the project is the "Campaign for Alcohol-Free Sports TV". Launched in 2003 with support of at least 80 other local and national groups, the campaign asked schools to pledge to prohibit alcohol advertising on local sports programming and to work toward eliminating alcohol advertising from televised college sports programs. It also sought Congressional support for such a prohibition.
One example is CSPI's contention, from the mid-1990s onward, that trans fats pose a public health danger. Three trade groups — the National Restaurant Association, the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers and the Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils — in response "said the evidence was contradictory and inconclusive, and accused CSPI of jumping to a premature conclusion." (Numerous studies and public health agencies have since supported the view that trans fats carry health risks.) A Wall Street Journal editorial acknowledged the risks, but argued that CSPI itself was partly to blame for creating the problem. In its 1980s campaign against saturated fats (at a time when even CSPI itself maintained that trans fats were relatively benign), CSPI had persuaded many restaurants, such as McDonald's, to introduce trans fats in the first place.
Other critics — such as the restaurant, food, and tobacco industry-funded Center for Consumer Freedom— refer to CSPI as "the Food Police," and suggest its focus on food manufacturers and retailers distracts from "real culprits... a lack of exercise and people's unwillingness to take personal responsibility for their own diets."
In 2002, food industry lobbyist Rick Berman, who is also the executive director of the Center for Consumer Freedom,
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![With access to nine universities and twelve junior colleges in an 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) radius, Montreal has the highest concentration of post-secondary students of all major cities in North America (4.38 students per 100 residents, followed by Boston at 4.37 students per 100 residents).[138] There are two anglophone universities in the city: McGill University is one of Canada's oldest universities, and widely recognized as a world-class institution. McGill has consistently been ranked in the to](http://web.archive.org./web/20110822003217im_/http://cdn3.wn.com/pd/83/e8/d52727de274d2caee012dc44df8d_thumb.jpg "With access to nine universities and twelve junior colleges in an 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) radius, Montreal has the highest concentration of post-secondary students of all major cities in North America (4.38 students per 100 residents, followed by Boston at 4.37 students per 100 residents).[138] There are two anglophone universities in the city: McGill University is one of Canada's oldest universities, and widely recognized as a world-class institution. McGill has consistently been ranked in the to")
