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| Wednesday 7 January 2009 |
Change4Life: change we can’t believe in
The UK government’s latest war on obesity is the most cartoonish public-health propaganda in living memory.
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| Tuesday 23 December 2008 |
A year of myths about smoking and obesity
At the fag end of 2008, two experts look back at puffed-up claims about smoking bans and the ‘obesity epidemic’.
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| Thursday 11 December 2008 |
Putting the government’s ignorance on display
There's no evidence that children will be tempted to smoke by seeing cigarette packs on the shelf in their local corner shop.
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| Wednesday 3 September 2008 |
It’s official: you can be fat and fit
Contrary to the government hysteria, being obese is not an indicator of ill-health, and it’s far from a death sentence.
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| Wednesday 30 July 2008 |
The state-sanctioned bullying of fat kids
Why is Britain opening so many ‘fat camps’? The evidence suggests they don’t work, and only make overweight children feel isolated and ashamed.
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| Monday 21 July 2008 |
Cigarettes and celluloid: a dubious link
The anti-smoking lobby’s claim that puffing on the big screen encourages kids to do likewise is as fictional as anything Hollywood has produced.
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| Thursday 3 July 2008 |
The fag end of advocacy research
On closer inspection, claims that England's smoking ban has led to a steep fall in heart attacks quickly turn to ash.
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| Wednesday 18 June 2008 |
The perils of being big in Japan
Millions of Japanese face health ‘re-education’ if they don’t slim down - and all because of bogus claims about the dangers of a large waistline.
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| Wednesday 28 May 2008 |
Body Mass Index: a big fat lie
Continuing our debate on ‘The Best and Worst of Medicine’, Patrick Basham and John Luik argue that BMI has led to a needless ‘war on obesity’.
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| Wednesday 14 May 2008 |
A lesson for Britain’s obesity hysterics
New evidence from America suggests that intervening in schools and forcing kids to eat, think and learn healthily does not make them slimmer.
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| Thursday 17 April 2008 |
A plastic ban for dummies
Canadian health authorities look set to label a chemical used in food containers and baby bottles as 'dangerous' - despite no convincing evidence of risk.
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| Thursday 27 March 2008 |
Take away the junk or we take away your kids
Removing obese children from their family homes won’t make them any healthier, but it will undermine parental rights and wreck families.
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| Wednesday 19 March 2008 |
Censorship built on
junk arguments
The global campaign to ban junk food ads is based on junk science: there's little evidence children 'eat what they watch'.
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| Wednesday 7 November 2007 |
Flabby claims about
food and cancer
A widely publicised report says that having a 'spare tyre' and consuming anything from bacon to milkshakes could increase your risk of cancer. Fat chance.
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| Thursday 22 March 2007 |
Is dieting good for you?
The authors of Diet Nation argue that efforts to lose weight are generally doomed to failure - and may possibly cause more harm than good.
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