Liberty
Trump obesity drug deal will boost Big Pharma
Christopher Jacobs writes for the Federalist about the downside of a new Trump administration deal. Should the rooster get credit for the sun rising in the morning? Hardly. Yet in…
Obesity
Liberty
SNAP Needs a Break from Bad Policy Choices
Angela Rachidi takes aim at major problems within a high-profile federal government program. In the coming months, Congress is expected to reauthorize the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the country’s…
Liberty
Left Poisons Our Understanding of Health
Christopher Bedford of the Federalist dissects a recent problem perpetrated by the political left. Today, the CDC recommends keeping kids masked and away from their peers because of a disease…
Liberty
Parsing the Politics of Obesity
Tristan Justice of the Federalist notes the complicated politics surrounding obesity. Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman was caught in controversy early this month after the salad executive linked the severity of…
Health Care
Exposing a COVID-19 ‘obesity trap’
Jack Butler writes at National Review Online about an unhealthy side effect of the coronavirus pandemic. … [T]wo aspects of the coronavirus era have become clearer. Both of them concern…
Health Care
A(n overly) simple finding in the obesity fight
Baylen Linnekin writes for Reason.com about a new nugget of research in the fight against fat. I was heartened this week to learn about a University of Iowa study that’s…
Health Care
Junk science plagues federal government’s nutrition, obesity standards
Edward Archer writes for the Federalist about the impact of dubious science on federal government nutrition and obesity standards. Over the past decade, my colleagues and I have published analyses…
Health Care
Obesity itself is not a health problem
“Everything you know about obesity is wrong.” Whether you believe fat people are failures, skinny people are health, diets work, or exercise will make you thin, it is not necessarily…
Health Care
Carbs Kill
That’s one of the things I took away from a fascinating Cato Institute report called, “Why Does the Federal Government Issue Damaging Dietary Guidelines? Lessons from Thomas Jefferson to Today.”…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Wal-Mart increases food security
Wal-Mart may contribute to obesity with its low prices on packaged foods, but the choice of location for Wal-Mart Super Centers helps increase the availability of calories, which means poor…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Your tax dollars at work: Church-based exercise coaches edition
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon details an unusual arrangement involving churches, Latinos, exercise, and your tax dollars. The National Institutes of Health is spending roughly $700,000 on a…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Your tax dollars at work: Food photography edition
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon reveals another dubious use of your tax dollars. The National Science Foundation is spending roughly $175,000 on an anti-obesity study that involves taking…