In what is becoming a blind quest to hype the nation’s fear of fat, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reached (yet another) new…
Draconian food-cop policies almost always have unintended consequences. Such is the case in Austin, Texas, where one high school’s ban on snack foods has created a thriving black market for…
Trouble is brewing in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) own back yard. Today, the Atlanta Journal Constitution published an op-ed from the Center for Consumer…
Last month a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against McDonald’s for supposedly making people fat. These days a coven of trial lawyers is plotting to sue the food…
McDonald’s recently reached an $8.5 million settlement with a California lawyer after the restaurant chain didn’t replace the trans fat in its food on a previously announced…
Paul Johnston of Middletown, Delaware is one ticked-off parent. And with good reason. As the Middletown Transcript reports, Johnston’s daughter — a student at Louis L. Redding Middle School —…
Would Ward Churchill approve of violence against his colleagues at the University of Colorado who engage in research using animals? If you read his introduction…
Industry-funded obesity researcher and statistician David Allison is responsible for the deeply flawed study which concluded obesity kills 300,000 in the U.S. each year. That was the basis for…
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)…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted that its report blaming obesity for 400,000 deaths a year has serious problems. As the Los Angeles Times…