Archive: Feb 2013 (page2)

National Soft Drink Prohibition Proposed

Today, food police from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)and potato scaremonger Walter Willett introduced a proposal that would ban every regular soft drink…
PostedFebruary 13, 2013 at11:45 am

Study Finds You Can Eat Healthy in Restaurants

Despite a lack of evidence that restaurants are a unique contributor to obesity, activists have focused on punishing them for the problems of obesity nationwide. But restaurants — even…
PostedFebruary 11, 2013 at4:52 pm

Soft Drink Scolds’ Diet Tip Not Effective or Popular

Listening to activists like Kelly “Twinkie tax” Brownell or Michael “Carrot-Juice House” Jacobson, you might think that the key to solving America’s obesity problem is a soft drink tax. You…
PostedFebruary 8, 2013 at1:59 pm

Addiction Mythmaking Entraps Activists

The leading group trying to convince politicians that food is an “addictive substance” like drugs is Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. Led by longtime “Twinkie…
PostedFebruary 6, 2013 at5:14 pm

Pro-Soda-Tax Arguments Are Contrived, Stale

Today the Houston Chronicle brings us a profile on Texas State Representative Joe Farias’s vision for his misguided soda tax. It sounded familiar to us, with the usual mix of…
PostedFebruary 5, 2013 at3:55 pm

Not-So-Sweet Sin Taxes Proposed in Half-Dozen States

Sometimes, bad ideas just won’t die. A perennial favorite is the sin tax on soft drinks, and with state legislatures convening across the country for their new sessions, they’re…
PostedFebruary 4, 2013 at1:43 pm