Obesity

• Utah School Fined $15,862 for Accidentally Selling Soda at Lunch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, May 17, 2012
• Do Poor People Ignore the Government's Dietary Advice Because They Can't Afford Healthy Food?, Jacob Sullum, May 17, 2012
• School Junk Food Ban Study Loaded With Empty Calories, Scott Shackford, May 14, 2012
• Fat Americans Need To Be Poked and Prodded To Thinness, J.D. Tuccille, May 8, 2012
• Is Your Flab Imposing a Burden on Society?, Jacob Sullum, May 1, 2012
• NYT Dives Back Into the Food Desert Swamp, Katherine Mangu-Ward, April 27, 2012
• The Mirage of Blooming 'Food Deserts', Jacob Sullum, April 18, 2012
• Harris Poll Reflects and Reinforces Incoherent Thinking About 'Public Health', Jacob Sullum, March 21, 2012
• Do People Eat Too Much Because They Enjoy It Too Little?, Jacob Sullum, March 7, 2012
• Mark Bittman: Government Is 'on Our Side' When It Stops Us From Eating What We Want to Eat, Jacob Sullum, February 27, 2012
• Kennedy on Whitney Houston, Adele, &...Michelle Obama?, Kennedy & Nick Gillespie, February 17, 2012
• Is This the Sort of Chip Manufacturer Obama Has in Mind?, Jacob Sullum, February 13, 2012
• Maybe Schools Don't Control What Kids Eat, Jacob Sullum, January 24, 2012
• Will the Obesity Plateau Allow Us to Take a Breather From Paternalistic Panic?, Jacob Sullum, January 18, 2012
• Former Senate Leader, Cat Torturer Bill Frist: America is Too Fat to Fight, Nick Gillespie, November 30, 2011
• Aussie Gov't to Citizens: You Are So Fat, We Sank to the Bottom of the Map, Katherine Mangu-Ward, November 29, 2011
• Fast Food Is Not a Poor Choice, Jacob Sullum, November 10, 2011
• Mark Bittman Corrects Fact-Resistant Food Policy Analysts...Such As Mark Bittman, Jacob Sullum, October 17, 2011
• Bloomberg: Paternalism Is 'Government's Highest Duty', Jacob Sullum, October 3, 2011
• Fat Tax in Denmark: Melancholy Danes Have One More Reason to be in Bad Mood, Nick Gillespie, October 3, 2011
• 'Childhood Itself Is Now in Crisis', Jacob Sullum, September 1, 2011
• Meddling in Other People's Diets Is 'Fun' and 'Inspiring', Jacob Sullum, July 25, 2011
• Study: Menu Labeling Doesn't Impact Food Choices, Baylen Linnekin, July 1, 2011
• Frustrated States Banning Local Food Bans, Baylen Linnekin, July 1, 2011
• New Study on Kids, Ads, & Obesity Says Same Thing in Mildly Different Way, Baylen Linnekin, June 28, 2011
• LA Times Talks Sense on Soda Taxes, Baylen Linnekin, June 27, 2011
• Uncle Sam's Cool New Way of Nagging You to Eat Your Vegetables, Jacob Sullum, June 6, 2011
• Debating Federally Funded School Lunches on Federally Funded Radio, Jacob Sullum, June 3, 2011
• Easy Work Joins Delicious Food As a Public Health Menace, Jacob Sullum, May 27, 2011
• How Did Toucan Sam Became a Scapebird for Childhood Obesity?, Jacob Sullum, April 29, 2011
• Wanted: Objective Scientific Studies of Ways to Constrain the Anti-Social Behavior of Evil, Food-Foisting Corporations, Jacob Sullum, April 28, 2011
• Eat As I Say, Not As I Eat, Jacob Sullum, April 8, 2011
• Can't Shake the Shake Shakes, Jacob Sullum, April 6, 2011
• Michelle Obama and Wal-Mart Are Salt-Free Low-Fat BFFs, Katherine Mangu-Ward, January 20, 2011
• Who Will Train the Twinkie-Sniffing Dogs?, Jacob Sullum, December 22, 2010
• Government Money Funds, Fights New Ubercheesy Domino's Pizza, Katherine Mangu-Ward, November 8, 2010
• Greasy Baltimore Carry-Out With Ironic Name First to Be Fined for Using Wrong Kind of Fat, Katherine Mangu-Ward, October 27, 2010
• Candy Corn, Gatorade, and the Poor, Katherine Mangu-Ward, October 27, 2010
• CSPI Doesn't Want to Stigmatize Poor People; It Just Wants to Punish Them for Their Disgusting Habits, Jacob Sullum, October 7, 2010
• Good Reasons To Feed Sick Kids McDonald's, Katherine Mangu-Ward, October 5, 2010
• Fast Food=Heroin, and Other Junk Ad Campaigns, Katherine Mangu-Ward, September 30, 2010
• Finding Patient Zero in the High Fructose Corn Syrup Hate Epidemic, Katherine Mangu-Ward, September 21, 2010
• Sliced Bagel Tax Angers New Yorkers, Katherine Mangu-Ward, August 24, 2010
• Are We Becoming More Honest About Our Weight?, Jacob Sullum, August 9, 2010
• Reason.tv: Nanny of the Month for July 2010-San Fran Soda Banner Mayor Gavin Newsom!, August 2, 2010
• Reason Writers on The Tube: Katherine Mangu-Ward Talking Food Police on Stossel, Nick Gillespie, July 19, 2010
• Who But a Corporate Apologist Would Argue That the Food You Choose to Eat Is a Personal Matter?, Jacob Sullum, July 15, 2010
• Thom Hartmann Worries About the Cost of Hiring Dietary Supervisors for Children, Jacob Sullum, July 12, 2010
• McDonald's to Happy Meal Haters: Drop Dead!, Katherine Mangu-Ward, July 9, 2010
• Milk v. Coke, Katherine Mangu-Ward, July 8, 2010
• The Happy Meal Under Attack, Nick Gillespie, June 23, 2010
• The N-Word in the Supermarket, Jacob Sullum, June 21, 2010
• Feds: Fatty Meat Is Bad for You. Now Shut Up and Eat Your Government-Provided Fatty Meat., Katherine Mangu-Ward, June 16, 2010
• Can't Wait to See That New Food Pyramid!, Jacob Sullum, May 12, 2010
• Jolly Rancher Earns Third-Grade Girl a Week of Detention, Katherine Mangu-Ward, May 10, 2010
• Why Pick on Smokers? Because We Can!, Jacob Sullum, April 29, 2010
• Joe Camel Eats a Happy Meal...in Jail!, Katherine Mangu-Ward, April 27, 2010
• Soda Buyback Program Offers Veggies for Cans of Coke, Opportunities for Arbitrage, Katherine Mangu-Ward, April 22, 2010
• Michelle Obama Replaces Easter Candy With Hand-Washing Stations; Solidifies Position as Nation's Leading Noodge, Nick Gillespie, April 6, 2010
• Does Anyone Really Want to Know The Calorie Count of Timbits?, Nick Gillespie, April 2, 2010
• Understanding The Nitty-Gritty Behind The Federal Menu Mandate, Nick Gillespie, April 2, 2010
• Fresh Food Fetishists and the Strange Appeal of Canned Green Beans, Katherine Mangu-Ward, March 30, 2010
• But Jesus Is Still Skinny, Jacob Sullum, March 24, 2010
• Conspicuous Calorie Counts Coming, Jacob Sullum, March 22, 2010
• It's a Nutter Idea, and It Just Might Not Work, Jacob Sullum, March 4, 2010
• Were They Hungry a Half-Hour After Eating the Pretend Food?, Jacob Sullum, March 3, 2010
• Reason Staffers on the Tube: Nick Gillespie on Stossel Talking Food Police, Fat Taxes, & More, March 2, 2010
• Childhood Obesity and Early Death, Jacob Sullum, February 11, 2010
• Lady Obama Patriotically Fights Obesity One Cinnamon Roll at a Time, Has Clearly Seen Animal House But Not Stripes, Nick Gillespie, February 10, 2010
• Great Moments in Nanny Statism, Radley Balko, January 25, 2010