The relentless effort of regulators to reduce options. If there’s agreement about anything in our hotly-politicized environment today it is that while we work to find sensible and principled solutions to real-world problems, we also need to do a better job coming to consensuses. But when it comes to addressing obesity, the most prominent public ... MORE
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Showing posts with label obesity. Show all posts
Jeff Stier: Obesity Police Launch A Needless War
The relentless effort of regulators to reduce options. If there’s agreement about anything in our hotly-politicized environment today it is that while we work to find sensible and principled solutions to real-world problems, we also need to do a better job coming to consensuses. But when it comes to addressing obesity, the most prominent public ... MOREGALLUP: Michelle No More Successful Than Barack
Obesity is up in nearly all age groups since 2008. Americans in nearly every age group today are more likely to be obese than those same age groups were four years ago. Obesity is up the most among older adults. For example, 14.4% of 84- to 87-year-olds are obese today, up from 12.2% in 2008. Obesity remains most prevalent in middle age. ... MOREUncle Sam Simultaneously Attacks And Subsidizes Soda
Tail-chasing politicians mindlessly spend and regulate. The federal government has financed a multi-million dollar ad campaign in New York City and elsewhere attacking sugary soft drinks. But legislation passed last week continues subsidizing sugar producers, and allows food stamp recipients to buy soda and other supposedly unhealthy foods ... MOREAnti-Obesity Efforts Are Fattening Government
by Julie Gunlock. Left unchecked, 42 percent of American adults will be obese by 2030. That was the headline grabbing conclusion of a 400-plus page report released by the Institute of Medicine (IoM) last month, which also found that two-thirds of adults and one-third of children are already overweight or obese. Yet the federal government has ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: Nanny Bloomberg's War On Soda
A busybody mayor's regulation obsession. Last month I applauded New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his graduation message in North Carolina in favor of marriage equality. But, I wondered at the time, why not "extend to food his own comments about [the] error of denying freedom"? Fat chance. On Thursday, Mayor Bloomberg ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Drop And Give Uncle Sam 20
Government seeks to cure the epidemic it created. At a “Harvard Thinks Big” confab earlier this year, evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman offered his own bright idea for tackling the nation’s obesity epidemic. Merely medicating it won’t do, he said, and education is well-meaning but ineffective. His answer? “Coercion. … We should start telling ... MORE
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Joe Palazzolo: The Budding War Against Big Food
Addicted to Coke ... and suing Coca-Cola? Our colleagues Ashby Jones and Shirley Wang had a great story over the weekend about mothers and fathers in custody lawsuits increasingly hurling accusations at each other about the nutrition and obesity of their children. They are using the obesity issue in an attempt to persuade judges that their kids are ... MORE
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