Big-government bureaucrats are already facing an uphill battle trying to convince cost-conscious consumers to give up their plastic bags or pay extra taxes. Now two studies reveal why America's…
It’s no secret that New York City’s most notorious food cop, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, doesn’t always practice the nutritional advice he preaches. And now the latest shoe has dropped…
Here we go again. Despite all the rhetoric about Michelle Obama finding brilliant new solutions for obesity, most anti-obesity initiatives these days are just rehashes of old ideas. Now…
One of the most popular trends among urban hipsters and self-styled foodies is “locavorism.” Locavores are food consumers who buy “locally” — or at least within a certain local…
It’s a new decade, but the self-anointed “food police” at the so-called Center for Science in the “Public Interest” are up to their old tricks. Today CSPI revealed…
Soda taxes are all the rage this year among public-health nannies, primarily thanks to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and activist Yale professor Kelly “Big Brother” Brownell. Of course, there's no solid evidence that adding…
If you fashion yourself a food cop crusading against an apocalyptic scourge of obesity, you can justify some pretty nutty things. We've seen San Francisco ban Happy Meal…
In our previous publications Small Choices, Big Bodies and An Epidemic of Obesity Myths, we presented a view of the scientific literature that often isn’t found in…
You’ve probably read our position before that there are no “good” and “bad” foods—a point backed up by the American Dietetic Association, which represents 70,000 nutrition professionals. Americans received…
