Question: What do you get when you combine a $500 million grant, nutrition zealots, and carte blanche to editorialize in a medical journal? Answer: 163 pages of food cop propaganda.
Apparently, one of the most absurd policy proposals ever generated by obesity zealots is still being taken seriously by political higher-ups. Yesterday on the Fox News Channel, an assortment of…
Last week’s issue of TIME magazine featured an endorsement of America’s rising grocery prices. Yes, an endorsement. Claiming that obesity is the residual price of affordable food, TIME reporter John…
Giving a column to a think tank is a lot like giving car keys to a 14-year-old boy: You know it’s going to end badly. Nevertheless, yesterday WashingtonPost.com handed over…
If he had known the threat dairy products would face in the 21st century, Ray Bradbury may have written his cautionary novel on a different subject. In a February…
The bandwagon’s getting more crowded every day. We told you last week that the New York City trans fat ban has been spreading like a grease wildfire, and the…
“If it’s twice the size of the regular, it should be twice the price.” — Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) President Richard Daynard, who’s apparently…
We all “know” the overused obesity myths: obesity kills 400,000 Americans annually, that it costs the nation $117 billion a year, and that today’s children will…
There’s been a lot of news coming up from Down Under this week. In addition to the tragic death of internationally beloved conservationist Steve Irwin, Australia is busy…
Alarmist professor Barry Popkin, previously seen touting a report that even top food cop Michael Jacobson considered spurious, unveiled the results of his latest study at the…
