You’ve probably read our position before that there are no “good” and “bad” foods—a point backed up by the American Dietetic Association, which represents 70,000 nutrition professionals. Americans received…
Exhaustive research has shown that obesity is a complex problem with many factors and causes. Why, then, do the nutrition nannies continually blame target foods that they have deemed…
Michelle Obama is the nation’s most ardent obesity nanny-in-chief. On the heels of her personal anti-obesity campaigning and finger-wagging, the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity released…
Two food industry groups recently announced that they’re developing a new front-of-package nutrition labeling system for food products. Naturally, that isn’t enough for the food cops. Last week,…
San Francisco’s proposed Happy Meal toy prohibition had been up in the air for a couple weeks. To his eternal credit, SFO Mayor (and now Lieutenant Governor-Elect) Gavin Newsom …
The “Physicians Committee” for “Responsible Medicine” (PCRM) is neither a physicians group, nor responsible, nor interested in medicine. (They do seem to be a committee.) So while PCRM claims to be…