“If you are an obese, diabetic child in New York who loves McDonald’s,” writes the Battle Creek Enquirer, “you may have hit the jackpot — but we hope not.”…
Today’s New York Times features an interview with Dr. Barry Schlenker, a University of Florida psychology professor. The Times describes Schlenker’s area of expertise as the study of…
Even if you accept the proposition that America is so fat it’s literally bursting at the seams — a presumption that depends on some fuzzy government math — the…
Casual observers of the July 2002 lawsuit filed by an overweight New Yorker against a group of fast food restaurants must be shaking their heads in amazement. Is the…
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Art Carey takes no guff when it comes to cultural trends, and he notes with great dismay that “some food fascists” are trying to sue McDonald’s…
Even the most casual observers of current events in the U.S. have heard of the “obesity epidemic” that is supposedly gobbling up our children by the thousands. But Dr.
The BBC is reporting that a new consumer group has sprung up in Great Britain, dedicated to the proposition that “the UK government has no right to try to…
If you’ve picked up a newspaper this week or turned on the television in the last 48 hours, chances are you think the entire American population is ready…
Still trying his case against fast food restaurants in the court of public opinion, trial attorney Samuel Hirsch and his clients argued on Thursday’s Dr. Phil Show that the…
Fox News ran a “top story” over the weekend about the efforts by a few unsavory trial lawyers to punish fast-food restaurants for giving Americans what they want.
