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6/6/09 ‘Prevention’ at the New CDC: How Far Is Too Far?
The Detroit News: Do Americans really share Frieden's ambition to prevent every disease at any cost? The doc's killjoy reputation strongly suggests that the answer is "no."
5/29/09 BMI 'report cards' won't keep kids healthy
MetroWest Daily News: In the campaign to eradicate childhood obesity, schools around the country have banned everything from birthday treats to vending machines. But when it comes to slimming down students, the so-called food police aren't making much progress.
5/13/09 Nudging Us to Better Food Choices?
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Barring any surprises in his confirmation hearing this week, Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein will become the new White House "regulatory czar."
5/1/09 Leave food choices to eaters
Philadelphia Inquirer: Sometimes, a public-health movement goes too far.
4/9/09 Calorie bill ignores role of inactivity in obesity epidemic
The Herald-Dispatch: National obesity rates suggest that while we've been obsessed with the "calories-in" side of the weight-loss equation, it's the "calories-out" side that will make the real difference.
2/24/09 Healthy eating knows no bulls or bears
Washington Examiner: Self-appointed health “experts” in and out of government are using the economic recession as an opportunity to regulate, legislate, and restrict our food choices.
2/6/09 Gourmet activists: Food for thought
Chicago Tribune: Newspaper readers who linger over the food and dining sections should be familiar with a movement urging President Barack Obama to jump-start a "food revolution."
1/31/09 Eat well, but don't skip your exercise
Northwest Times of Indiana: Unsuccessful dieters and overzealous policymakers might consider that they might have been focusing on the wrong side of the weight-loss equation.
1/22/09 Lack of exercise is the problem
Providence Journal: 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.
1/17/09 Obesity not about fast food, but exercise
Rocky Mountain News: 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.
1/16/09 Why are Mississippians fatter than Coloradans?
New Hampshire Union Leader: 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.
1/11/09 If you love eating, better get moving
Omaha World-Herald: 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.
1/11/09 If you love eating, better get moving
Omaha World-Herald: Everyone, in every state, gets to decide which food to buy. Yet obesity rates vary widely across the country.
1/11/09 Controlling obesity: Exercise, or lack of it, critical factor
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: 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
1/9/09 Hey Gov. Paterson, soda is not the problem
New York Daily News: State-by-state obesity trends only make 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.
12/30/08 Fishy Omega-3 risks
Washington Times: If the FDA's report becomes official policy, the conventional wisdom urging women of childbearing age to eat less fish will be turned completely upside-down.
12/30/08 Taxes on soda, juice an ‘experiment’ we should skip
Buffalo News: In an attempt to shore up the state’s $13.3 billion deficit, Gov. David A. Paterson is trying to give New Yorkers a Christmas present they do not want: Taxes.
12/25/08 Solution to holiday weight gain? Get moving
DC Examiner: As usual for the holiday season, newspaper health pages have been full of tips on how to make it through December without looking like a fat Santa Claus by New Year’s.
11/25/08 Poor Children Suffer From Tuna Fears
The Providence Journal: Seafood warnings are hurting, not helping, America’s most vulnerable kids. Sad? Yes. Shameful? Absolutely.
11/17/08 Scandinavians have fitness right, sans food police
The Rocky Mountain News: Rather than regulating what we put into our bodies, government would get more bang for its public-health buck by focusing on how we exercise those bodies.
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