obesity
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A modest proposal for Congress: Ditch the extra funding for school lunch
In order to boost school lunches by pennies per meal, the Senate says it must take $2.2 billion away from the food stamp program. That's a bit like picking the pocket of one panhandler to put it in the hand of another. Here's why the House should kill the increase.
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This is why we're fat — by the numbers
Nibbling on the data nuggets found in this "Food Consumption in America" infographic delivers a real jaw-dropper, showing the literal weight of an average American's food choices in a typical year. See how Americans weigh in!
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Save school lunch from snack-happy government standards
We need the Child Nutrition Act pending in Congress passed to save children from sugar-heavy meals that are destroying their health.
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Michelle Obama to Congress: Without school food reform, anti-obesity initiative may fail
Michelle Obama renews her call for Congress to pass the "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act" touting an increase in funding. But it's about more than that -- the bill may finally get junk food out of schools.
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Smoking vs. obesity: Which health issue most deserves taxpayers' dollars?
Anti-smoking spending is down, while anti-obesity spending is up. Is this really a problem?
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Fast food's vomit-worthy hall of gimmicks [SLIDESHOW]
Using extra meat as the "buns." Adding an extra sandwich or two. Making anything a "footlong." What results from these tricks of the fast food world aren't examples of food; they're freak sideshows, novelties, gimmicks of a cheap'n'easy system of producti
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Chefs and parents plot a lunch revolution at one D.C. public school
A group of chefs and parents plan to turn Tyler Elementary’s kitchen-cum-makeshift-office into a place to cook actual food.(Ed Bruske photos) A group of prominent Washington, D.C.-area restaurant chefs has volunteered to introduce a novel concept in school-food service to one Capitol Hill elementary school: collaborating with parents to take over kitchen operations on a nonprofit basis, […]
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Are kickbacks from Kellogg and others driving school-food purchasing?
D.C. Public Schools in the last two years have taken in more than $1 million in corporate rebates — referred to by some as “kickbacks” — paid by giant food manufacturers as an inducement to place their brands on kids’ cafeteria trays at school. Documents I obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that […]
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‘Top Chef’ flunks school-food math
First Lady Michelle Obama and assistant chef Sam Kass in the White House garden. (White House photo)Bravo’s new season of “Top Chef,” set in D.C. and billed as “from the White House to your house,” debuts tomorrow with a big wet kiss for Michelle Obama and her campaign to end childhood obesity. Even the White […]