An editorial in this morning’s USA Today disparages the World Health Organization (WHO) for encouraging fat taxes as a response to obesity. The paper argues that “…
No one likes being called “fat,” “overweight,” or — most of all — “obese.” But the truth hurts, and the sooner Tom Cruise, Mark McGwire, Michael Jordan, and President Bush…
Obesity ranks “without question” as the biggest food story of 2003, according to America’s food editors. Harvard researchers declared obesity the biggest health story of the…
U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Joe Lieberman (D-CT) wants to be the food-cop-in-chief. Last week he proposed a series of anti-obesity measures, including marketing bans and…
The World Health Organization, whose mission involves tackling the scourges of AIDS and Malaria, now spends its valuable time and resources fretting that people like to eat steak and drink…
“This government has nothing better to do than counting the grams of fat in a hamburger?” Washington, D.C. City Councilman David Catania asked incredulously this morning. The Council’s Committee on…
At the beginning of 2003, menu labeling legislation was just a pipe dream of dietary scolds like those at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
After the California State Senate passed a menu labeling bill that used the language of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) word for word,…
Most Americans believe that AIDS and other communicable diseases constitute the biggest threat to our nation’s health. But according to the “experts” from the field of public health, they’re dead…
Hey, Piggie, how much do you weigh? That’s the question overweight Arkansas school children can expect from their peers this year. The state will require all schools to…
