Gary Taubes is the author of two of the most controversial and potentially explosive articles that The New York Times Magazine has published in the past decade....
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Gary Taubes is the author of two of the most controversial and potentially explosive articles that The New York Times Magazine has published in the past decade. One appeared in 2002 under the headline, "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" The other was published in April, 2011, with the cover language "Sweet and Vicious: The case against sugar."
The first challenged the notion that low-fat diets are the way to lose weight. He quoted researchers who said that "low-fat weight-loss diets have proved in clinical trials and real life to be dismal failures, and that on top of it all, the percentage of fat in the American diet has been decreasing for two decades. Our cholesterol levels...
The New York City Health Department is poised today to approve Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on sodas larger than 16 ounces. That has generated another round of reporting which, I hoped, might discuss the available evidence for whether such a ban would help reduce obesity.
Alan Mozes...
The New York City Health Department is poised today to approve Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on sodas larger than 16 ounces. That has generated another round of reporting which, I hoped, might discuss the available evidence for whether such a ban would help reduce obesity.
Alan Mozes at HealthDay takes time to ask the question, interviewing two researchers and reporting that the American Academy of Pediatrics, a Harvard obesity expert (Walter Willett), Weight Watchers, and Jenny Craig, among others, support the ban. But he doesn't explain why they support it or think it would be effective.
The AP's David B. Caruso explains that the ban would give...
Three years ago New York City required chain fast-food restaurants to post...
Three years ago New York City required chain fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts for items on their menu. Now a study by the city's health department shows that only 15 percent New Yorkers actually read the calorie ratings. But the report says that those who do read the listings tend to favor lower-calorie dishes.
The researchers, who checked the cash register receipts of more than 7,000 adult customers before the law went into effect and some 8,500 two years afterward, found no overall decline in calories consumed. But when they looked at only those who said they consulted the calorie listings, those customers ate about 100 fewer calories per meal--757 vs. 863. Results were published in the British Medical Journal, BMJ, ...
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