Last spring, some parents were offended that their children’s school districts had taken it upon themselves to send notes home with students considered “at risk for overweight.” Said one…
Houston, watch out for the calorie czar. The city’s mayor has appointed former Mr. Universe Lee Labrada to be the government-backed fitness guru charged with slimming down Houston.
In a CNSNews.com satire, Lydia McGrew takes a look at the disturbing new trend of “homefeeding” — a shocking practice in which parents usurp the role of government…
Kelly Brownell is at it again. The main proponent of a “Twinkie tax” on snacks and restaurant foods took his message to Capitol Hill this week, crowing the anti-consumer…
The campaign against soda and snacks in public schools has reached the front page of The New York Times. As we have told you in the past, anti-obesity…
Food is not tobacco. But, as we have reported over the past several months, the campaign to treat restaurant food like tobacco — to restrict where it is sold,…
The fight to regulate personal food choices has infected Texas. That state, always rightly proud of its spirit of self-determination and independence, will now restrict sales of so-called “junk foods”…
The American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, and the Georgetown University Center for Food and Nutrition Policy have all made it clear that there are no “good foods” and…
As Americans rush to finish off their tax forms and get them in the mail by midnight, the Internal Revenue Service is rushing ahead with plans to allow deductions for…
