OBESITY EPIDEMIC CHALLENGED BY EXPERTS

When reading an article such as the one from Pennlive.com we tend to think that perhaps there is hope that the anti-obesity campaign will no...

MANDATORY MONITORING OF CHILDREN'S BODY MASS INDEX

On October 17, 2007 we commented on a Denver Public School District policy that weighed children and issued health report cards to their pa...

THE FAT PHOBIA

We have been trying to bring this phenomenon to the attention of the media and the health authorities, for some time. Naturally, because we ...

Treating people like luggage for the sake of Highlighting the Obesity Crisis

From Australia, the trend setters for ‘’nannyism’’, comes this story about how the obese should be billed a ‘’heavy load’’ surcharge when bu...

IT IS TIME EPIDEMIOLOGY TAKES A FEW STEPS BACK

The ink of the latest report from the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research urging us that in order to stay ...