489 search results for “obesity study”

Latest Obesity Study Doesn’t Say Much, Despite Alarmist Headlines

A new bodyweight study from The Lancet says (surprise!) the number of overweight and obese people has risen drastically since 1980 and it’s time for (surprise!) “urgent global…
Posted May 29, 2014 at1:54 pm

Alarmist Claims about New Obesity Study Still False

A new obesity study out this week indicates that childhood obesity rates have gone up slightly since 1999, contradicting another recent study, conducted by the Centers for Disease…
Posted April 10, 2014 at7:59 am

New NEJM Obesity Study Relies On Flawed Body-Mass Index

Washington, DC – A study set to be published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on Thursday makes the wild claim that a few extra pounds might literally…
Posted August 22, 2006 at12:00 am

CCF Debunks Flawed North Carolina Obesity Study

A recent claim by state officials that sedentary and overweight North Carolinians cost $24 billion a year is itself bloated, according to a…
Posted January 4, 2006 at12:00 am

Another Obesity Study Confirms: Risks Overstated

Food cops, trial lawyers, and pharmaceutical interests looking to write their own prescription for fat profits have hitched their wagons to obesity hype. But…
Posted August 8, 2005 at12:00 am

CDC Officially Corrects Flawed Obesity Study

It’s official. Yesterday afternoon, a team of researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the agency’s director, was forced to officially correct their deeply flawed…
Posted January 19, 2005 at12:00 am

Study: Lack of Exercise, Not Food to Blame for Obesity

While anti-food activists continue to push unscientific and self-serving claims indicting specific foods as the biggest culprit for obesity, we’ve continually sought to highlight the other, often…
Posted July 9, 2014 at1:50 pm

Healthy Habits Study Busts Obesity Myths

Much to the chagrin of activists who think that obesity is the new tobacco, new evidence published in the Journal of the American Board of…
Posted April 18, 2012 at5:06 pm

New Study: Food Environment Plays Very Small Role in Obesity Rates

According to a new study posted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, environmental factors such as food prices or restaurant location play a minuscule role in America’s increasing rates…
Posted September 29, 2011 at12:00 am

Office Jobs A Major Contributor to Obesity Problem, Study Finds

Everyone knows what a couch potato is, but have you heard of a desk potato? As the American workplace has shifted from farms and factories to cubicles and computer…
Posted May 26, 2011 at12:00 am