Tags: Obesity

Will mandatory calorie counts save us from ourselves?

American health care to the rescue?

Amid the hustle and bustle of downtown Los Angeles, there exists another world, an underground world of illicit trade in—not drugs or sex—but bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Street vendors like Elizabeth Palacios must choose between satisfying customers’ desire for bacon or government regulators who call the salty pleasure “a potentially hazardous food.” Palacios knows the regulations have teeth—she spent 45 days in jail for selling black market bacon dogs.

Mike Huckabee's leaner-than-thou attitude

Is overweight the new healthy?