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Rob Lyons
Welcome to the Nagging Health Service
Some health fanatics want everyone from GPs to hospital porters to lecture to us about our lifestyles.
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| Tuesday 11 October 2011 |
Basham and Luik
David Cameron’s unpalatable nannying
A proposed ‘fat tax’ is not only illiberal but also daft - there’s ample evidence such taxes don’t improve health.
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| Tuesday 4 October 2011 |
Rob Lyons
This obsession with fat is really taxing
Denmark has introduced a ‘fat tax’ - but what business is it of governments to tell us what we should eat?
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| Wednesday 7 September 2011 |
Rob Lyons
The onward march of the Obesity Orwellians
When kids are snatched from their parents simply for being too fat, it’s clearly the expansion of the state, not our waistlines, that is out of control.
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| Wednesday 31 August 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Do growing economies cause bigger bellies?
New obesity figures seem designed to scare us out of our greedy ways, and not just when it comes to what we eat.
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| Wednesday 27 July 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Forgive me, Bloomberg, for I have binged
The calorie info in NY restaurants may not have trimmed many waistlines, but it has induced Catholic levels of guilt about eating.
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| Tuesday 12 April 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Weight loss: the futility of the exercise
If even running a marathon doesn’t shift the pounds, why are the rest of us constantly told to ‘get active’?
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| Tuesday 15 March 2011 |
Basham and Luik
How the war on obesity went pear-shaped
With increasing evidence that a big belly probably won’t lead to an early death, it’s time to call a ceasefire.
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| Thursday 3 March 2011 |
Basham and Luik
Healthcare for all! Unless you’re fat
It is not the role of the state to prevent people from having operations on the basis of their lifestyles.
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| Tuesday 21 December 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Whatever happened to the ‘obesity timebomb’?
The latest figures suggest that Britain’s waistlines are no longer expanding. Why are there no celebratory headlines?
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| Tuesday 9 November 2010 |
Basham and Luik
A Happy Meal ban is nothing to smile about
The proposal to ban meals with toys in San Francisco is based on some dubious assumptions about obesity and health.
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| Wednesday 8 September 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Britain’s neverending school-meals saga
The relentless politicisation of the humble school dinner has been bad for parents, teachers and children.
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| Thursday 5 August 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Don’t call us fat or obese. Just leave us alone
The spat over how officialdom should refer to plump people overlooks the fact that it should be none of its business how much we weigh.
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| Monday 5 July 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Officialdom’s bullying of so-called fat kids
The branding of a perfectly normal 11-year-old boy as ‘overweight’ shows how mad the obesity panic has become.
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| Thursday 1 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Putting St Jamie in
the dock – at last
In flambéing Jamie Oliver, the Lib-Con health secretary is striking a blow against a deeply patronising form of politics.
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| Thursday 18 March 2010 |
Rob Lyons
This tax on fizzy drinks stinks
Whether it is cigarettes, booze or soda, it’s not the place of the taxman to dissuade us from our enjoyable bad habits.
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| Tuesday 19 January 2010 |
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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