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What Really Killed Andrew Breitbart? The Likely Cause of Death The Mainstream Media Ignored

Maer Roshan, Hunter R. Slayton, The Fix. March 8, 2012.

Not a single mainstream media outlet or website dared to publicly raise the question of substances. Instead, the media began giving airtime to right-wing conspiracy theories.

Pollution Can Make You Fat

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.

I Have an Easier Time Talking with My Kids about Sex than Food

Donna Fish, Huffington Post. March 19, 2008.

There is a way to educate kids on how to take better care of their bodies.

Now Doctors Say It's Good to be Overweight

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.

A Former Fat-Camper's Life in a Teenage Waistland

Abby Ellin, SMITH Magazine. April 13, 2007.

An overweight teenager's year abroad is anything but an escape from the diet-obsessed social life she was hoping for.