Big Fat Lies (page 76)

Questioning the “Obesity Epidemic”

On the front page of this morning’s Wall Street Journal marketing section, reporter Betsy McKay takes a hacksaw to the public-health myth that U.S. levels of obesity are out…
Posted July 23, 2002 at 12:00 am

Chasing Ambulances is Hungry Work

Somehow we knew it would come to this. Amid dire warnings about fast-food commercials from culinary know-it-alls like Yale’s Kelly Brownell and alarmist reports about growing…
Posted July 18, 2002 at 12:00 am

The “War on Fat”: A Review

In recognition of the month when America celebrates its freedom, we are devoting the first two weeks of July to a review of the ongoing battle for consumer freedom —…
Posted July 3, 2002 at 12:00 am

War On Fat: Here Come The Lawyers

“Look out, stomach, here it comes!” The Daily Oklahoman warns in an editorial. With anti-consumer activists targeting snacks and restaurant foods, “lawyers are poised to compel another giant…
Posted June 25, 2002 at 12:00 am

CSPI: From Nanny To NANA

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the infamous activist group that wants “taxes on snack foods and soft drinks,” dubbed fettuccini Alfredo a “heart attack on…
Posted June 19, 2002 at 12:00 am

Ralph Mouths Off

For years now, we have been warning consumers about the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric -- and increasingly ambitious agenda -- of anti-consumers activists. Their latest bomb fell Sunday. Perennial fringe presidential candidate Ralph Nader, in The New York Times Magazine: "McDonald's double cheeseburgers [are] a weapon of mass destruction."
Posted June 17, 2002 at 12:00 am

Food Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

“Sellers of food products do not attract the same kind of attention as purveyors of drugs or tobacco. They should.” Only “food companies and their trade associations” believe…
Posted June 12, 2002 at 12:00 am

Attorney Aims At Restaurant Industry

Attorney John Banzhaf made his name, and a lot of money, by suing tobacco companies. The George Washington University professor heads up an organization that promises “hundreds of billions…
Posted June 5, 2002 at 12:00 am

CSPI: When Is A Pizza Not A Pizza?

The Center for Science in the Public Interest‘s shocking report that pizzas contain cheese caught the attention of The Dubuque Telegraph Herald’s Ken Brown, who writes: “I always…
Posted June 3, 2002 at 12:00 am

Truth Attack On A Plate

The Center for Science in the Public Interest — the group that wants “taxes on snack foods and soft drinks,” dubbed fettuccini Alfredo a “heart attack…
Posted May 1, 2002 at 12:00 am