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Michael Cook
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| Thursday 21 February 2008 |
Tim Black
Replacing the Fatropolis with Fit Towns
New ‘healthy towns’ that encourage people to walk more, eat the right kind of food and stay forever fit take repression to a new level.
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| Thursday 31 January 2008 |
Neil Davenport
Compulsory cookery: another half-baked idea
Teaching children how to cook should be about taste and pleasure - but the UK government is only interested in obesity, salt intake and telling us how to live.
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| Thursday 24 January 2008 |
Rob Lyons
Let's call a ceasefire in the 'war on obesity'
In tackling an imaginary fat epidemic, the government is intruding into our lives, guilt-tripping parents and stigmatising chubby children.
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| Wednesday 17 October 2007 |
Rob Lyons
The dangers of fried food and a fried planet
Claims that the ‘obesity epidemic’ is as bad as climate change suggest that modern society is bingeing on scare stories.
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| Thursday 6 September 2007 |
Rob Lyons
...packed lunches?
It's not the government's job to tell parents how to feed their children.
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| Thursday 6 September 2007 |
Dan Travis
A step in the wrong direction
Pedometers for children are the latest weapon in the War on Obesity. But mere 'activity' is a poor substitute for vigorous and pleasurable sports.
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| Thursday 26 July 2007 |
Rob Lyons
The war on obesity is a war on the poor
The news that rich kids are as large as their poorer peers caused shockwaves only because the myth of the fat, feckless poor is so prevalent.
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| Wednesday 4 July 2007 |
Matthias Heitmann
Achtung: if you’re fat, you’re anti-social
The German government’s new anti-obesity campaign seems designed to turn people’s weight into a measure of their moral integrity.
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| Thursday 22 March 2007 |
Basham and Luik
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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| Tuesday 27 February 2007 |
Rob Lyons
Weighing into family life
The case of Connor McCreaddie, a fat eight-year-old from Newcastle, shows that the obesity panic is taking away our rights - and even our children.
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| Friday 26 January 2007 |
Rob Lyons
A diet of misinformation
John Luik, co-author of Diet Nation, tells Rob Lyons that the obesity panic is being fattened by savvy interest groups and junk science.
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| Wednesday 20 December 2006 |
Josie Appleton
There’s more to childhood than counting calories
The obsession with expanding waistlines is narrowing horizons for children - and replacing adult guidance with health tips.
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| Tuesday 28 November 2006 |
Josie Appleton
Who killed the school trip?
The UK government wants children to get out and about - but it was its own suspicious regulation of adults that cast a cloud over such adventures.
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| Thursday 12 October 2006 |
Duleep Allirajah
Don’t give up the day job
Footballers should stick to tackling opponents, not obesity.
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| Monday 25 September 2006 |
Emily Hill
‘We use healthy girls with tits’
Emily Hill braved London Fashion Week and found few fashionistas willing to defend the use of skinny models.
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| Wednesday 20 September 2006 |
Malcolm Evans
The weighing game
The founder of the Weight Foundation on how dangerous dieting has become a way of life, and having an eating disorder a badge of pride.
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| Monday 18 September 2006 |
Rob Lyons
Jamie Oliver: what a ‘tosser’
St Jamie's school-dinners crusade returns tonight, providing yet another unhealthy serving of food fears with a side order of parent-bashing bile.
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| Friday 18 August 2006 |
Claire Fox
Starving kids’ TV of funds - and fun
Government pressure on broadcasters to restrict ads for junk food and promote 'healthy lifestyles' is causing a crisis of creativity in children's programming.
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| Thursday 8 June 2006 |
Rob Lyons
Pay As You Eat
spiked-TV: Giles Coren's Tax the Fat was more facetious than factual.
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