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Citizens Against Government Waste follows our lead in ridiculing the "fat tax" proposals of the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Yale Professor Kelly Brownell. Good to see our allies joining the fight to oppose this absurd proposal.

Reuters does little more than reprint the oppressive "Twinkie Tax" proposal of anti-choice nannies Kelly Brownell of Yale and Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

In not one, but two articles on Sunday, Karen Goldberg Goff of the Washington Times draws from the anti-choice nannies at the Center for Science in the Public Interest to make the ridiculous case that people shouldn't eat such delectable items as Pop-Tarts, Twinkies, donuts, French fries, and white bread.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Michael Jacobson and 1998 Nanny of the Year Kelly Brownell have recommended in a paper in the June issue of the American…

CSPI's attack ad on family restaurants (reported here on 5/30) garnered at least one convert: Roll Call editor and syndicated columnist Morton Kondracke. With CSPI as his sole source, he writes "'Fat police' testing fast-food restaurants and applying a 'cholesterol tax' wouldn't be impossible."

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) placed an ad in newspapers today claiming high-fat, high-calorie foods “kill as many Americans as tobacco.” As we have warned, CSPI…

Ramping up to the National Nutrition Summit next week, USA Today surveys the nation's leading food nannies, who not coincidentally are also panel moderators.

Summit Agenda Food columnist Nancy Anderson sees the National Nutrition Summit as a great opportunity for nannies to get a stranglehold on restaurants and food producers. *The bad guys are restaurants and pre-packaged food producers who are offering ever larger servings of food. * Since eating out has increased steadily in the last decade, it seems reasonable to point the finger at the food industry for the fat epidemic.* And this is a from a food columnist, folks! (*Biggie sized? Oh, yeah!* Pittsburgh Post Gazette)

A new study on obesity -- published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition -- claims that restaurant sales growth and the marketing of large-portion meals may be to blame for "America's overweight epidemic." The study's release is intended to give "perspective" to next week's National Nutrition Summit which will be a veritable convention of anti-choice nannies.

Akron Beacon Journal writer Jane Snow swallows hook, line, and sinker, the baseless arguments of those who would blame rising obesity rates on restaurant portion sizes.