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Basham and Luik
The myth of an ‘obesity tsunami’
Recent figures on both sides of the Atlantic suggest claims of an epidemic of weight-related illness are grossly exagerrated.
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| Wednesday 13 January 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Put the lunch police back in their box
New research says children’s packed lunches are unhealthy. But what we feed our kids is no business of government.
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| Wednesday 11 November 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Airbrushing ‘bad ads’ from public life
The campaign to ban retouched images of skinny models is not only crazy – it’s deeply censorious, too.
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| Tuesday 6 October 2009 |
Rob Lyons
Weighing into family life — again
Obesity campaigners want all expectant parents to be weighed. We should tell them to get stuffed.
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| Wednesday 22 July 2009 |
Rob Lyons
The bunkum of Body Mass Index
The BMI measurement is crude and unscientific, yet the government loves it because it draws almost everyone into its anti-obesity orbit.
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| Tuesday 30 June 2009 |
Basham and Luik
Turning fat people into social outcasts
A new report chastising fat celebs as a bad influence is part of a worrying campaign to ‘denormalise’ chubbiness.
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| Wednesday 13 May 2009 |
Basham and Luik
All you need is ‘love handles’
Forget the hype about an ‘obesity epidemic’: the research shows carrying a little extra weight is harmless.
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| Monday 11 May 2009 |
Tim Black
‘Whatever next: fat babies? Fat fetuses?’
A nutrition expert slams the academics who think parents should stop saying ‘puppy fat’ and instead say ‘obese’.
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| Monday 27 April 2009 |
Patrick Hayes
Bamboo Joint: raided by the junk food cops
Patrick Hayes reports from the first fast-food outlet in Britain to be shut down because it is too close to a school.
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| Wednesday 8 April 2009 |
Rob Lyons
Calorie-counting is an eating disorder
Imploring restaurants to list calorific content won’t help people lose weight, but it will zap the pleasure from eating.
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| Thursday 26 February 2009 |
Basham and Luik
Four fat myths about obesity and cancer
A new report from the World Cancer Research Fund recycles some highly dubious claims about our waistlines and health.
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| Monday 12 January 2009 |
Mark Sparrow
It’s a Digestive, Jim, but not as we know it
Anti-fat Whitehall functionaries have managed to ruin the British biscuit that even Hitler failed to crush.
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| Wednesday 7 January 2009 |
Basham and Luik
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 |
Basham and Luik
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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| Wednesday 8 October 2008 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Childhood obesity is not a form of child abuse
Public health zealots have no business putting fat kids on the at-risk register. Plus: Listen to Rob Lyons debate Tam Fry.
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| Friday 26 September 2008 |
Neil Davenport
The revolting world of middle class prejudice
A new ‘protesters’ handbook’ is about as rebellious as the newspaper that published it: the Guardian.
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| Thursday 25 September 2008 |
Rob Lyons
An endless diet of government intervention
Health authorities and food campaigners have pursued their pet projects by promoting scare stories about children’s health.
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| Wednesday 3 September 2008 |
Basham and Luik
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 |
Basham and Luik
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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| Wednesday 18 June 2008 |
Basham and Luik
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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