“Certainly it’s a marketing ploy. This is about marketing. It’s not really about nutrition.” That’s what food cop Marion Nestle told NBC Nightly News last week, after…
Since we unveiled our humorous new TV ad featuring the “Soup Nazi” actor from Seinfeld, we’ve been overwhelmed by comments. Most have been positive. But a few have come from…
Over the years, the growing cabal of diet dictators have proposed a litany of crazy proposals to tax, legislate, and litigate away many food and beverage choices. What…
From the rhetoric coming out of last weekend’s obesity-lawsuit-pushing Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) conference in Boston, you’d think snack foods and soft drinks were the number one cause…
Food-Scold-in-Chief Michael Jacobson is at it again. In an op-ed published last week by the San Francisco Chronicle, the executive director of the misnamed Center for…
The choir of anti-obesity fatheads is reaching a crescendo as a new article in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) describes a purported consensus among public-health busybodies in…
“Surely it would be legitimate to point out that an anti-tobacco activist was a chain smoker, that an opponent of legalized gambling liked to play the slots, or that an…
The critics of consumer choice and enemies of a wide variety of menu options have never been known for their consistency. From flip-flops about obesity lawsuits to schizophrenic support of…
Julia Child, one of America’s greatest personalities and its foremost ambassador to the joy of eating, died yesterday at the age of 91. In addition to her longevity…
