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CDC Must Retract Obesity Deaths Study

Trial lawyers and food cops spreading unwarranted hysteria over the nation's so-called "obesity epidemic" have lost yet another leg to stand on. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has determined that its March 2004 bombshell study implying that obesity kills 400,000 Americans each year was fundamentally flawed. read more here »



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    • Features

    History Of A Great Unraveling
    The rhetoric surrounding the so-called "obesity epidemic" has itself reached epidemic proportions. Here is a timeline of the study's incremental demise. read more here »

    CDC: Obesity-Death Estimate ‘Fundamentally’ Flawed
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has formally admitted that its report blaming obesity for 400,000 deaths a year is fundamentally flawed. read more here »

    Obesity Diagnosis: Couch-potato-itis
    According to the food antagonists and trial lawyers driving today's hysteria over the so-called "obesity epidemic," restaurants, school vending machines and soda are to blame for expanding waistlines. read more here »

    Does the government think you're fat? Does the government think you're fat?
    Use our Body Mass Calculator to find out your Body Mass Index (BMI), and see how you rate in the eyes of the government. read more here »

    The Center for Consumer Freedom addresses the FDA
    CCF Research Director's remarks to the October 23, 2003 FDA Public Meeting on Obesity. read more here »

    Ad Campaigns

    Lawyers Hope for a 'Fat' Payday Lawyers Hope for a 'Fat' Payday
    This commercial about frivolous obesity lawsuits warns that lawyers don’t only chase ambulances anymore. Trying to cash in on America’s love handles, they are now chasing restaurant deliveries. click to view »

    Actor. Govenor. Fatso? Actor. Govenor. Fatso?
    According to the U.S. government, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, and Sammy Sosa are all obese! Trial lawyers and activists are using these flawed standards to sue food companies and call for higher taxes! click to view »


    OpEds

    Eat well, but don't skip your exercise
    Unsuccessful dieters and overzealous policymakers might consider that they might have been focusing on the wrong side of the weight-loss equation. read more here »

    Lack of exercise is the problem
    State-by-state obesity trends make more sense when you look at the other side of the obesity equation — physical activity. Simply put, residents of states with high obesity rates tend to move less. read more here »

    Activist Cash

    Center for Science in the Public Interest
    Background | Quotes | Financials
    The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is the undisputed leader among America’s “food police.” CSPI’s joyless eating club has issued hundreds of high-profile — and highly questionable — reports condemning soft drinks, fat substitutes, irradiated meat, biotech food crops, French fries, and just about anything that tastes good. read more here »

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