One of the provisions of the stimulus bill and later the national healthcare law provided for grants from the federal government to local and state governments to prevent chronic…
It seems that Yale University’s Kelly “Twinkie Tax” Brownell has had an epiphany. Alas, it is not that soda taxes make a pathetically small impact on obesity. In…
If there is a spiritual home for the modern food police, it’s New York City. Whether the city and its reportedly salt-loving mayor are forbidding prepared food…
A story is crossing the wires today that three in five Californians support the controversial soda tax. That struck us as odd, considering we’ve seen several national…
We’ve noted before that chocolate milk is both a favorite choice of thirsty schoolchildren and a favorite target of anti-milk and anti-sweets activists. Two stories,…
There is a theory of political dynamics — called the “Overton window” after the political scientist that articulated it — that holds that certain policies are thinkable and…
