|
|
 |
| Monday 26 October 2009 |
NYC: the city that never smokes
A proposal to ban lighting up in New York’s parks has exposed the puritanical agenda behind the crusade against smoking.
|
|
| Tuesday 21 July 2009 |
Banning alcohol ads won’t cure alcoholism
The campaign to restrict the advertising of booze in order to save the public could end up driving us to drink.
|
|
| Tuesday 30 June 2009 |
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.
|
|
| Tuesday 23 June 2009 |
Smoke gets in the government’s eyes
Tobacco displays do not lead young people to light up, so why on earth are UK officials banning them?
|
|
| Wednesday 13 May 2009 |
All you need is ‘love handles’
Forget the hype about an ‘obesity epidemic’: the research shows carrying a little extra weight is harmless.
|
|
| Wednesday 29 April 2009 |
Displaying their ignorance on smoking
Why does New Labour want to ban cigarette displays in shops when there's no evidence it will impact on smoking habits?
|
|
| Tuesday 3 March 2009 |
Women, keep drinking
Why was a flimsy study apparently showing a link between booze and breast cancer so uncritically accepted?
|
|
| Thursday 26 February 2009 |
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.
|
|
| Wednesday 4 February 2009 |
Why the government can’t ‘cure’ obesity
There’s one major problem with the authorities’ obsessive focus on making us lose weight and shape up: it doesn’t work.
|
|
| 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.
|
|
| 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’.
|
|
| 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.
|
|
| 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.
|
|
| 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.
|
|
| 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.
|
|
| 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.
|
|
| 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.
|
|
| 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’.
|
|
| 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.
|
|
| 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.
|
|
|
