by Baylen Linnekin. Bring back common sense! Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 266-144 in favor of the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2015. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration. If passed, the bill would amend a host of menu-labeling rules that were
adopted by the Food and Drug Administration ... MORE
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Showing posts with label obesity. Show all posts
Repealing The FDA’s Stupid Menu-Labeling Mandate
by Baylen Linnekin. Bring back common sense! Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 266-144 in favor of the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2015. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration. If passed, the bill would amend a host of menu-labeling rules that were
adopted by the Food and Drug Administration ... MORENYT Columnist Wants A Minimum Drinking Age For Soda
by Guy Bentley. Busybodies minding your own business. A New York Times columnist has proposed the government introduce a
minimum age for buying soda and card kids who try to buy Coca-Cola at
the local store. In wide-ranging discussion with Luckypeach.com,
food journalist and New York Times opinion writer Mark Bittman
attempted to equate ... MORE
How Obamacare Lets Companies Punish Fat Employees
by Abby Ellin. Obesity police to issue fat fines. A few months ago, Tracy Raymond, a first-grade teacher in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, discovered that she was too fat for her school. A 50-year-old mother of two, Ms. Raymond has always carried around extra padding, but it never bothered her. “I know I’m heavier than I should be for my height, but I’m not ... MOREGov't Spent $3.5 Million To Study Why Lesbians Are So Fat
by Elizabeth Harrington. The dreaded low self-esteem rears its ugly head. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now spent over $3.5 million to determine why the majority of lesbians are obese. The project, now entering its fifth year, received another grant worth $658,485 this summer. The total funding for the research is now $3,531,925. ... MORE40 Percent Of Americans On Food Stamps Are Obese
by Chuck Ross. A new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) finds that
Americans receiving food stamps are more likely to be overweight and
obese than those who do not receive assistance. The USDA analyzed data
from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for
the years between 2007 and 2010 and found that ... MOREFDA Nannies Plan To Reduce Food Options For Americans
by Steve Chapman. Busybodies minding YOUR own business. On Thursday, hundreds of millions of Americans risked obesity, heart disease and indigestion by eating large quantities of food with no precise knowledge of the caloric content. If many of them felt regret on Friday, it was not because they were duped into overeating by the ... MOREGovernment Studies Why Obese Girls Don't Get Much Sex
by Casey Harper. Anyone have a theory? While most Americans put on a few pounds for Thanksgiving, the federal government has been spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars researching why obese girls don’t have sex. The National Institute for Health grant allocated $466,642 to the Magee-Women’s Research Institute to study the sexual ... MOREA Student's Campaign To Dump Michelle O’s Lunch Dictates
by Kyle Olson. Meghan Hellrood is determined to make her point about the new skimpy lunches in her school. The D.C. Everest High School senior is organizing a boycott of the
new “healthy” lunches required by federal regulations that were
championed by First Lady Michelle Obama. After posters announcing the boycott were taken down, she was ... MOREMichelle Obama's Stupid & Tyrannical Snack Rules For Kids
by Victor Skinner. School nutrition experts in Nebraska are struggling to comply with new federal snack regulations championed by First Lady Michelle Obama. “I think we’ve gone too far, too fast,” Diane Zipay, director of nutritional services for the Westside School District told KIETV.com.
“And I don’t think it’s a real-world environment. ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Things I Don't Understand
There are things that really puzzle me. Some life insurance companies charge lower premiums if you haven't made a life-shortening lifestyle choice. Being a nonsmoker is one of them. Actuarially, that makes sense because the life expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers. Insurance company policies ... MOREThere's Nothing SWEET About the National Soda Tax
by Baylen Linnekin. Last month, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)
proposed the SWEET Act, an excise tax on sweetened beverages.
The tax, which has been billed as a national soda tax, would
lay a one-cent duty on every teaspoon of sugar in soft drinks
and other beverages. The proposal is
intended "to curb obesity, diabetes, and the resulting ... MORE
Windsor Mann: We Should Ignore Michelle Obama
Why listen to an unelected busybody? Last month, Michelle Obama took an "unusual" step, The
Washington Post reported,
"by delivering White House remarks taking issue with makers of
frozen pizza and french fries." I'll say. One scours in vain the
speeches of Martha Washington and Eleanor Roosevelt for
proclamations about ... MOREPouring Cold Water On San Francisco's Soda Tax
by Baylen Linnekin. Last month the San Francisco city council introduced a proposal
to tax soda at a rate of two cents per ounce. The tax, which would
have to be approved by voters, would add a whopping $1.44 to the
cost of a six-pack of soda. The council liked the idea so much that
they soon
introduced a competing proposal to tax soda ... MOREPaul Roderick Gregory: The Problem Is Obesity, Not Hunger
Thoughts on the food stamps debate. Throughout history, politicians have fabricated crises to justify their
own solution to the crisis they themselves dreamed up. History is strewn
with non-existent crises – the population bomb, global cooling,
resource depletion, freon destroying the ozone layer, and so on – that
threaten ... MORERonald Bailey: The Top 5 Bogus Health Scares
How activist misinformation harms Americans. Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up a variety of menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. Their scares ranging from the decades-long campaign against fluoridation to worries that saccharin ... MOREDiane Stafford: Obesity's Becomes Concern For Employers
Fat employees get extra rights. Ignore an obese employee’s request for a larger desk chair and prepare to be sued for violating disability accommodations law. Don’t hire an overweight woman because she doesn’t fit your corporate sales image and face a possible discrimination lawsuit. Call your employee “Fatty” instead of his ... MOREThe Bogus Public Health Attack On Sugar
by Julian Morris. Health activists are in a tizzy over sugar and fast food, which
they blame for the obesity “epidemic.”
Responding to these concerns, politicians have sought to tax or
regulate the alleged culprits. Tort lawyers, smelling
tobacco-settlement-scale greenbacks, have been gearing up to
sue companies producing sugary beverages. Last ... MOREMarta H. Mossburg: Food Regulations Of The Future
A sneak preview of the coming War on Obesity. March 29, 2020: The federal government today announced new regulations for buying fast food. Starting June 1, upon entering a national fast food chain restaurant or before ordering via a drive-thru each patron must undergo a Body Mass Index (BMI) analysis. The score will ... MORE
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