Geoffrey Lean, The Independent UK. September 8, 2008. A new study shows that children exposed to pesticides in womb are twice as likely to be overweight.
Foreign PolicyJuly 16, 2008. Sure, it's ruining the global economy and making everyone miserable, but there's an underappreciated upside to the high price of oil.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. June 24, 2008. Obese America is literally sitting on vast energy reserves -- all we need to do is extract it.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. December 13, 2007. Marketers are targeting kids at disturbingly young ages, compromising the nation's health, creativity and democracy.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. December 12, 2007. Author Gary Taubes challenges common myths about obesity and explains why Atkins might well have been right.
David Usborne, The Independent UK. November 13, 2007. After years of anti-obesity public health advice, a major new study causes an outcry by concluding that the moderately overweight live longer.
Bryan Young, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. November 7, 2007. Bryan Young: It's no longer a "Small World" and if we don't act quickly, it's going to be a very fat world.
Viji Sundaram, New America Media. August 6, 2007. An expert on childrens' health attacks a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine which suggests that obesity is socially contagious.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 18, 2007. Jill Filipovic: A reporter from Salon believes it's healthier to undergo surgery where a doctor slices your breasts open and stuffs two saline-filled baggies into your chest than it is to have a naturally big ass.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. May 24, 2007. Can the diet industry be prosecuted into warning labels and public education efforts the way the tobacco industry has been?
Joshua Frank, AlterNet. December 27, 2006. Drinking one soda a day could cause you to gain 15 pounds a year. Other related health risks include type 2 diabetes, heart disease, bowel cancer and nerve damage.
