U.S. Officials Tried To Block Baby Formula Imports—During a Shortage
One official was concerned that lifting tariffs would lead to "lots of questions from domestic dairy producers."
Nutrition
Reason Is a Finalist for 14 Southern California Journalism Awards
Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.
How To Assemble a Vegan Plate
Lab-grown chicken, vegan mac and cheese, animal-free ice cream, and more.
This Year's Libertarian Gift Guide: 23 Ideas for 2023
In today's innovative economy, there's no excuse for sending a gift card. The staff at Reason is here with some inspiration.
The Best of Reason: Take Nutrition Studies With a Grain of Salt
The epidemiology of food and drink is a mess.
How Seed Oils Were Demonized
A sketchy conjectural hypothesis was transmogrified into a dubious dietary dogma.
Take Nutrition Studies With a Grain of Salt
The epidemiology of food and drink is a mess.
Despite the Doomsday Narrative, Global Inequality Has Significantly Declined
This progress has been widely shared, to the great benefit of the people at the bottom of the distribution.
Be Skeptical of the New Artificial Sweetener Scare
Plus: Liberal teens are more depressed than conservative ones, the outsize role of immigrants in U.S. innovation, and more...
Biden's Conference on Food Insecurity and Health Served Warmed-Over Ideas
No new, interesting, or helpful food policies are coming from this administration.
Mandatory GMO Disclosure Doesn't Sway Shopping Habits (But Will Drive Up Costs)
Plus: Questioning paranoia about smartphones and attention spans, new small business creation is thriving, and more...
United Nations Official Suggests Elon Musk Donation Could Solve Global Hunger (Kinda)
How much good can $6 billion really do?
Vegan Group Sues the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Promoting Dairy Products
The government should let milk marketing stand on its own four legs.
Consumer Groups Ask FDA To Force Alcohol Makers To Hide Facts from Consumers
Knowledge is probably not more dangerous than alcohol, but why risk it?
The Government Isn't About To Tell You To Stop Drinking Now
Plus: Operation Warp Speed is off to a slow start, Trump's school choice order, and more...
'Limited, Arbitrary, and Unsystematic:' Flawed Federal Dietary Report Targets Alcohol
Experts are blasting proposed federal guidelines that call for men to consume no more than one alcoholic beverage per day.
The Latest Fight Over Eating Meat Ignores These 4 Essential Nutrition Truths
Don't let the lack of consensus on nutrition keep you from striving for a better way to eat.
The Press Fans Overblown Fears About Diet Soda—Again
Plus: understanding consent in sex work, beyond "Medicare for All," and more...
Judge Rules Florida Can Require a License To Give Out Diet Tips
No diploma, no making money telling people how to eat better.
Vegetarians vs. Omnivores: A Soho Forum Debate
Listen to journalist Nina Teicholz face off against David L. Katz, MD, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, at an event in New York City.
Are Vegetarians Healthier than Omnivores? A Soho Forum Debate
Watch journalist Nina Teicholz face off against David L. Katz, MD, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, at an event in New York City.
Crossfit Deletes Facebook and Instagram After User Group Is Deplatformed
In the best of all possible worlds, such actions wouldn't be necessary. In the current climate, boycotting social media might spark a return to a robust marketplace of ideas.
States Sue Over School Lunch Changes, Say They're Not Scientific Like the Obama Rules Based on Retracted Nutrition Studies
Plus: Pete Buttigieg says no to "free college," and the problems with Elizabeth Warren's plan to jail business execs
Stossel: The Breakfast Myth
People claim breakfast is the "most important meal of the day." But it's not.
Go Ahead and Ignore Those #BreakUpWithBacon Ads
Nutrition nannies launch new cancer scaremongering campaign.
New Research Confirms We Got Cholesterol All Wrong
The U.S. government has pushed a lot of bad nutrition advice over the years. Maybe it should stop advising us on what to eat.
Nutrition Studies That Backed Obama-Era School Lunch Programs Get Retracted: Reason Roundup
Plus: Kennedy-family charity to bail out incarcerated NYC women and how Virginia makes things impossible for small distillers.
Whole Fat Dairy: It Does a Body Good*
Consuming whole fat dairy foods lowers mortality and cardiovascular risks, according to a new Lancet study.
Most Nutrition Research Is Bunk
Implausible estimates of benefits or risks associated with diet reflect almost exclusively the magnitude of nutrition researchers' cumulative biases.
Don't Worry About That Diet Soda Habit: Artificial Sweeteners Are Harmless, Say Scientists
After years of being blamed for weight gain and metabolic issues, zero-calorie sweeteners and the drinks they flavor are being absolved.
How Big Government Backed Bad Science and Made Americans Fat
Q&A with journalist Nina Teicholz
Meet the Man Who Hated Carbs Before It Was Cool
Gary Taubes on how big sugar and big government wrecked the American diet
Eating Insects Could Be the Future of Culinary Innovation
If government will stay out of the way.
Gary Taubes on How Big Government Made Us Fat
The attack on fatty foods, in favor of carbohydrates, contributed to rising rates of obesity and diabetes.
Free Yourself From the Soft Tyranny of Nutrition Studies
Chances are, you already know what you need to do to be healthier.
No, Being Fat Won't Help You Live Longer
A decade or more of "obesity paradox" research is just plain wrong.
Is Keto the Cure for Type II Diabetes?
A drug-free approach might be the best treatment we have for America's most ubiquitous lifestyle disease.
You Don't Have to Listen to the Government to Eat the Foods You Like.
Bad Food Bible author Aaron Carroll on flawed government nutrition guidelines, diet-science nihilism, and why you shouldn't give in to restrictive food moralism.
Florida Threatens Woman with Fines, Jail for Giving Diet Tips
Occupational licensing runs amok in a familiar story.
More Evidence That Everything the Government Teaches Us About Eating Is Wrong
Global study goes against the grain on fats, fruits, and dietary dogma
The Junk Science Behind 'Smarter Lunchrooms'
A federal program to help public-school students eat healthier is based on highly problematic-and perhaps fraudulent-research.
Eating Less Salt Does Not Lower Blood Pressure for Most Americans, Says Yet Another Study
The failure of consensus nutrition "science" and the ongoing collapse of dietary puritanism.
Is Sugar an Addictive Poison?
Hypothesis: More sugar causes both more diabetes and more obesity
2 Books To Help You Thrive in Trump's America!
Penn Jillette's diet memoir and a Harvard historian's take on Prohibition are essential guides to the next four years.
FDA Salt Guidance Could Kill More People Than It Saves
Treat people as individuals not just as members of an undifferentiated public health herd
Drafter of U.S. Dietary Goals Was Bribed by Big Sugar to Demonize Fat
Newly released historical documents show the Sugar Research Foundation paid scientists to blame fat and cholesterol, not sugar, for coronary heart disease.
