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Junk science and bad policy
T. Becket Adams of the Washington Examiner probes the links between bad science and bad government policy. This spring, Dr. Johannes Bohannon and a team of German scientists discovered that…
Dieting
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Is Soda Standing between You and Your Lindsay Lohan Body?
Help! I can’t get the image of that fat lady I saw last night out of my mind! And that fat lady across the street is smothering me with all…
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Diets don’t work, but you have to read that in the UK press
Fox News is the only US outlet that shows up on Google News as running a story on a new analysis that shows diets leave people heavier and less healthy.
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The unintended consequences of fighting fat
The food nannies keep trying to limit what we can eat. Not surprisingly, binge eating is associated with severe obesity, and bulimia and anorexia have even more serious consequences. We…
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Reading can be bad for teen girls? health
The fat police will continue to tell us their crusade is about improving health, but the obsession with weight can be seriously unhealthy for young women. A new study suggests…
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Seen and Unseen Weight Studies
You may remember the infamous 400,000 deaths study in 2004. It’s results were quickly downgraded then reduced to 112,000 in a another CDC study. You may have heard the news…
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Mario Williams
Jon, The classification of NFL players like NC State’s first pick in the draft as obese, however idiotic, is not the reason for ballooning numbers of Americans becoming overweight or…
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Providing, not depriving
Jon Ham’s post on school lunches brings us back to the problem of diets and obesity. Consider these points from the article he found. Researchers concluded that pupils whose school…
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Re: Woww
Okay, sure I ought to drop a few pounds, but that would be excessive.
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…put aside our anti-government prejudices
Compare this story with this column, consider whether weight or dieting is the problem, then add government overreach to the list of problems associated with weight gain. Hat Tip: Big…
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Fat is healthy
Just in time for the new family of 12 food pyramids with an emphasis on activity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new study in the…
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Too Poor to Diet
The solution to America’s obesity problem? South Beach subsidies!