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CDC Must Retract Obesity Deaths Study

Trial lawyers and food cops spreading unwarranted hysteria over the nation's so-called "obesity epidemic" have lost yet another leg to stand on. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has determined that its March 2004 bombshell study implying that obesity kills 400,000 Americans each year was fundamentally flawed. read more here »

NYC Menu Labeling Misses The Point Posted On: April 21, 2008 Cell Phones, Corn Sugar, And Other Health Hype Posted On: April 16, 2008 Promoting Government (And Vanity) As Obesity Solution Posted On: March 25, 2008 Do-Gooder Double Standards Posted On: March 14, 2008 Suspension Over Sweets Posted On: March 12, 2008 Humane Humanity, Activist Inanity Posted On: March 10, 2008 Show Me The Data Posted On: March 4, 2008 Menu Labeling Meltdown Posted On: February 18, 2008 The Obesity Bandwagon: Crowded, But Still Unfounded Posted On: February 15, 2008 History Of A Great Unraveling The rhetoric surrounding the so-called "obesity epidemic" has itself reached epidemic proportions. Here is a timeline of the study's incremental demise. read more here » CDC: Obesity-Death Estimate ‘Fundamentally’ Flawed The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has formally admitted that its report blaming obesity for 400,000 deaths a year is fundamentally flawed. read more here » Obesity Diagnosis: Couch-potato-itis According to the food antagonists and trial lawyers driving today's hysteria over the so-called "obesity epidemic," restaurants, school vending machines and soda are to blame for expanding waistlines. read more here » Does the government think you're fat? Use our Body Mass Calculator to find out your Body Mass Index (BMI), and see how you rate in the eyes of the government. read more here » The Center for Consumer Freedom addresses the FDA CCF Research Director's remarks to the October 23, 2003 FDA Public Meeting on Obesity. read more here »	Latest Study on Fat According to the latest study: Eating too much food may make you fat. If you eat a wheelbarrow full of cheese fries each week, the cheese fries are to blame when people call you, "Big-Daddy-Large-Pants". click to view » Actor. Govenor. Fatso? According to the U.S. government, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, and Sammy Sosa are all obese! Trial lawyers and activists are using these flawed standards to sue food companies and call for higher taxes! click to view » A Healthy Diet Doesn’t Mean You Are Many health officials criticize the modern American diet, suggesting that our grandparents’ nutrition was notably superior. read more here » Blame The Couch, Not Food Industry, For Obesity Holidays are the season for nostalgia. Without fail, reference to the “good old days” often turns into debates over contemporary headaches. read more here » Center for Science in the Public Interest Background \| Quotes \| Financials The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is the undisputed leader among America’s “food police.” CSPI’s joyless eating club has issued hundreds of high-profile — and highly questionable — reports condemning soft drinks, fat substitutes, irradiated meat, biotech food crops, French fries, and just about anything that tastes good. read more here »