When the federal government released its updated dietary guidelines yesterday, the ever-growing cabal of food activists — quite predictably — tried to turn them into a launching pad…
“Americans don’t need fuzzy thinking generated by fizzy science.” So ends a Center for Consumer Freedom letter published in today’s Boston Globe, responding to a recent…
Yesterday was declared “National No Soda Day” by an activist organization called the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) — presently unaffiliated with the American Medical Association.
When Johns Hopkins University researcher Roland Griffiths released a study arguing that “caffeine addiction” should be recognized (alongside depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia) in the Diagnostic…
An obesity researcher who’s pushed for Twinkie taxes, marketing prohibitions, and even zoning laws to restrict where restaurants and convenience stores are located has received a fat check from…
In an exercise in “statistical hocus pocus,” this summer a team of Harvard academics published a headline-grabbing soda slam in JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical…
“It’s Official,” the headlines blare. “Coffee and cola are addictive.” Of course, nothing is official. But that hasn’t stopped anti-caffeine crusader Roland Griffiths from boasting,…
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…
It’d be hard to miss the blaring headlines that trumpet the latest anti-soda scare study — this time supposedly linking increased consumption with type 2 diabetes.
