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Sweetener Antics Leave a Bitter Taste
(7/28/10) In the world of competing brand names, marketing teams are always looking for an edge. But sometimes they go a little too far—and consumers usually get the short end of...
BMI: Body Mass Idiocy
(7/23/10) As we explained yesterday, “Body Mass Index” is a simplistic measurement of human height and weight used by government to classify people as “overweight” and “obese.” But it doesn’t take...
There’s Overweight, and Then There’s “Overweight”
(7/22/10) We’ve long held that using the “Body Mass Index” (BMI) as a tool for measuring obesity is wrongheaded. BMI is a simplistic measure that only combines height and weight—ignoring muscle...
WWJS? What Would Julia Say—A Sweet Video
(7/21/10) With some food companies swapping out high fructose corn syrup for table sugar, there’s a big hullabaloo about so-called “natural” sugar gaining marketplace momentum. We’ve long held that it’s just...
Video of the Week
(7/20/10) On John Stossel’s FOX Business Network show last week, Reason magazine editor Katherine Mangu-Ward took on notorious food scold MeMe Roth over whether we should “police” every American’s food intake....
Prescription for Big Government: Butt Out
(7/19/10) In the public policy world, there’s always a cadre of activists demonizing one food or ingredient in the hope that targeted government regulation will magically make all of us healthier,...
Video of the Week
(7/16/10) By now you’ve probably heard about the threats from the notorious Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) to sue over toys in Happy Meals. It’s certainly silly, but...
Big Government Doesn’t Mean Smaller Waistlines
(7/14/10) Kelly Brownell, Yale’s resident food-policy and obesity blowhard, is once again using the opinion page of the Hartford Courant to score some points in favor of wildly unpopular and ineffective...