Fast food fat taxWill a planned US tax on fast food actually have an impact on obesity levels? Or will it just make food more expensive to those with little cash?
Obesity 
Tubby Tommys: British troops too fat to fight in Afghanistan
Time for more push-ups and less chocolate puds for Her Majesty’s finest: a leaked Defence memo has revealed that the British Army’s efforts in Afghanistan are being hampered by the number of soldiers who are too overweight to be deployed.
Tackling obesity with economics
Want to solve the obesity epidemic? Instead of relying on the notoriously unscientific diet industry, maybe it’s time to give economists a shot, says Andrew Leigh.
Time to treat Big Food like Big Tobacco?
Just as Big Tobacco swore that smoking doesn’t cause cancer, the food industry may never admit that its calorie-laden wares are making us fat; but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be held to account: it’s time to recast the industry as “obesity dealers”, says Ellen Goodman.
The neuroscience of McDonald’s
The most pleasurable thing about eating McDonald’s isn’t the dripping cheese, salty chips or even the discount ice-cream cone: it’s the calories. Jonah Lehrer explains why we’re just hard-wired that way.
Fox News say “fat chance” to Surgeon General nom
Fox News has run a segment asking whether new US Surgeon General nominee, Dr Regina Benjamin, is “too fat” for the role, including an interview with a guy in a “no chubbies” tshirt. All class.
Time to say RIP to the BMI
There’s a better (and easier) way than Body Mass Index to get a reading of a person’s obesity and risk for disease, writes Jeremy Singer-Vine. So why do doctors still give the BMI so much weight?
Why we’re fat — and getting fatter
Weight-[em]loss[/em] books have been an ever-expanding genre for decades, but now an increasing body of literature on exactly what is driving the West’s weight [em]gain[/em] is appearing. So why are we getting so porky?
Sugar, heart ticks and a little note from Warren
My piece about the Australian Heart Foundation last week inspired quite a few folks to plunge electronic quill into digital inkwell and dispatch missives in my general direction, writes David Gillespie.
Preventing obesity is simple: it’s all in the marketing
The Parliamentary Inquiry on Obesity must not ignore the role of junk food marketing. Our children certainly aren’t — and that’s what’s making them bigger, says Professor Boyd Swinburn.
Surgery is not the solution to obesity epidemic
The House of Reps committee wimped out on making a strong call to action for some bold obesity prevention policies — like tougher regulation of food formulation and a ban on junk food advertising to kids, writes Melissa Sweet.
Weighing it up — new obesity report released
Late last night, the House of Reps Standing Committee on Health and Ageing released its report on the inquiry into obesity in Australia. It seems to put quite a bit of weight, pardon the pun, on treatment rather than prevention.
The facts about fat
How unhealthy is it to be overweight? Querying the value of the BMI measurements for obesity.
How Big Food is copying Big Tobacco
Researchers say the US food industry is employing the same legal, political and business strategies previously utilised by Big Tobacco, and the health consequences could be dire.
Weight loss shakes do a fat lot of good
Australian pharmacists are now feeding people a substance that will make them heavier, give them heart disease and encourage diabetes, writes David Gillespie.
The Coca-Cola Chronicles: Spinning with Big Sugar
Is Big Sugar starting to sound a lot like Big Tobacco? asks David Gillespie.
Why doesn’t Nanny care about fat people?
Can anyone please tell me why does nanny think it’s OK to ban tobacco use just-about-everywhere yet she doesn’t seem to feel it’s her responsibility to stop her charges from self-destructing on lethally fatty fast foods? asks Ruth Colagiuri.
Wake up Jeff: an email fat fight
Meet Jeff Corbett. A fiery columnist for The Newcastle Herald, he’s the author of such pearls of wisdom as this week’s ‘Nation of Nancy Boys’.
Fag, booze and food hikes suck: give the poor SODS a break
Pity those who are smoking, obese, drinkers (SODs), writes Gavin Mooney.
Rosemary Stanton: My menu for the 2020 Summit
As one who has accepted the invitation to participate in the 2020 summit, I have decided to ditch my usual cynicism because I believe we have a government who might just listen to us, writes Rosemary Stanton.
Obesity: when in doubt, declare war
The war on drugs brought spiraling levels of addiction; the war on terror inflamed violence throughout the world. So here comes the war on fat, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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