Tara Lohan, AlterNet. October 3, 2009. Chemicals called 'obesogens' are in our food, cars and homes, according to recent scientific studies -- and they may be making us fat.
Michael Pollan, The New York Times. September 14, 2009. Look out fast food; when insurance companies can't dump the sick, they will have to strongly support healthy diets, or lose money.
Jessica Hester, Bitch Magazine. August 28, 2009. If porn serves as a repository for images and ideas expelled from society at large, feeding porn seems inevitable.
Tony Newman, AlterNet. August 18, 2009. First the employers came for the smokers. Now they're talking about not hiring obese people. Your personal struggle or lifestyle choice may be next.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. August 10, 2009. The food industry has changed American eating habits and helped create the country's No. 1 public-health issue.
Jasmin Ramsey, PULSE AlterNet: PEEK. July 27, 2009. A restaurant has launched an anti-health rebellion, serving Quadruple Bypass Burgers (8,000 calories) and Flatliner Fries cooked in pure lard.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet: PEEK. July 7, 2009. Why do we base advice on preventing obesity on a 200-year old formula developed by a mathematician who knew nothing about the human body?
Stacey Folsom, AlterNet. June 24, 2009. McDonald's refuses to take responsibility for the skyrocketing rates of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Brie Cadman, Divine Caroline. April 20, 2009. It's come to light that fat, the much maligned macromolecule, doesn't deserve the reputation it's been dealt.
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.
