Obesity

Policy

Menu Mandate's Missing Math

You can show people calorie numbers, but you can't make them count.

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

You Can Show a Fat Bastard Calories, but You Can't Make Him Count

Jacob Sullum | 10.7.2009 5:41 PM

Policy

Mayor Bloomberg's Salty Tooth

Jacob Sullum | 9.24.2009 11:13 AM

Policy

Coke CEO Calls Obama a Commie

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.15.2009 5:23 PM

Policy

Again, With Feeling: Thinner Is Not Cheaper

Jacob Sullum | 9.10.2009 12:26 PM

Policy

Drink Yourself Fit

Jacob Sullum | 9.1.2009 3:09 PM

Policy

A Clean Plate

Purging our diets of unethical and excessively tasty food

Jacob Sullum | 8.28.2009 12:00 PM

Policy

Help! I've Reached the Obesity Tipping Point, and I Can't Get Up!

Jacob Sullum | 8.25.2009 7:28 PM

Policy

Fat Load

A slimmer America won't save taxpayers money.

Jacob Sullum | 8.5.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

What's Sauce for Pizza Hut Is Sauce for Famous Original Ray's

Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2009 3:27 PM

Policy

New Weight Loss Plan: Drop Your Health Insurance?

Peter Suderman | 7.29.2009 4:01 PM

Policy

Soda Tax: The Revenge

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.28.2009 11:33 AM

Policy

If Obesity Saves Taxpayers Money, Should It Be Encouraged?

Jacob Sullum | 7.27.2009 12:16 PM

Policy

Obesity Levels Off; Complacency Threatens to Reach Alarming Levels

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2009 11:45 AM

Nanny State

Dunch: It's What's For Dinner. Or Lunch. Or Both!

Peter Suderman | 7.15.2009 2:34 PM

Nanny State

Briefly Noted: Downsize Me

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2009 12:38 PM

Policy

Why Not Tax Thin Nonsmokers?

Jacob Sullum | 5.26.2009 6:14 PM

Policy

Trans Fat Prohibitionist to Head CDC

Jacob Sullum | 5.15.2009 1:12 PM

Policy

A Federal Soft Drink Tax?

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2009 5:08 PM

Policy

The Curious Case of Banning Blubber

Jeff Winkler | 5.1.2009 9:40 AM

Policy

David Kessler Goes Dumpster Diving (and Emerges With Garbage)

Jacob Sullum | 4.30.2009 12:38 PM

Policy

More Support for Fast-Food-Free School Zones

Jacob Sullum | 3.23.2009 4:46 PM

Culture

Halo Health

Fit, happy gamers

Ronald Bailey | 12.24.2008 12:00 PM

Policy

Big Apple Tax Bite

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.15.2008 11:23 AM

Nanny State

Plus-Sized Hosers Take Off in Two Seats in Great White North, Eh

Nick Gillespie | 11.21.2008 7:05 AM

Policy

Super Size Me…To Life!

Nick Gillespie | 10.14.2008 8:43 AM

Policy

Too Fat To Fry? (i.e., Execute Via Lethal Injection)

Nick Gillespie | 8.25.2008 10:43 AM

Policy

Who's Afraid of Calorie Counts?

Jacob Sullum | 8.22.2008 3:21 PM

Policy

Are You Sure You Want Fries With That?

Mandatory calorie counts cross the line between informing and nagging.

Jacob Sullum | 8.20.2008 7:00 AM

Nanny State

"A five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes"

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.15.2008 3:17 PM

Policy

If Everyone Is Overweight, Is Anyone?

Jacob Sullum | 8.6.2008 5:30 PM

Nanny State

Girlie-Governor

Matt Welch | 7.25.2008 5:48 PM

Nanny State

L.A. Says "No" to Cheap Food for Poor People

Radley Balko | 7.24.2008 8:40 AM

Policy

What About Famous Original Singas Pizza?

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2008 4:40 PM

Culture

Why Does Pixar Hate America?

Nick Gillespie | 7.10.2008 12:16 PM

Policy

What About Fat Kids With Low Cholesterol?

Jacob Sullum | 7.7.2008 2:37 PM

Policy

The Difference Between Informing and Nagging

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2008 1:13 PM

Nanny State

Force-Fed the Facts

Will mandatory calorie counts save us from ourselves?

Steve Chapman | 6.23.2008 7:00 AM

Policy

Accidents, Murders, Preemies, Fat, and U.S. Life Expectancy

American health care to the rescue?

Ronald Bailey | 6.17.2008 5:00 PM

Policy

Back Away From That Teriyaki With Your Hands Up!

Matt Welch | 6.13.2008 10:19 AM

Policy

As Fat As We're Gonna Be?

Jacob Sullum | 5.28.2008 8:15 PM

Policy

A Pill a Day Keeps the Doctor Away?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.14.2008 10:58 AM

Policy

Debating CSPI

Radley Balko | 4.21.2008 1:24 PM

Nanny State

In Defence of the 3,000 Calorie Breakfast

Nick Gillespie | 4.21.2008 9:34 AM

Nanny State

Lando Calrissian's Cloud City for Fat People

Nick Gillespie | 4.17.2008 3:07 PM

Policy

The Burden of Healthy Living

Jacob Sullum | 2.5.2008 6:14 PM