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The "Obesity Epidemic"?

Liberal health zealotry in the Times.
By
Clay Waters
December 6, 2006 - 3:24pm

Obesity's a problem, sure. But is it really an epidemic?



It is, according to the Times' food police. In Wednesday's off-lead on New York City's first-in-the-nation ban on artificial trans-fats in restaurant food, Thomas Lueck and Kim Severson write [1] that "Health officials said displaying calorie counts was meant to address what is widely regarded as a nationwide epidemic of obesity."


In a joyless accompanying editorial thattalks of the "punishing" calorie intake of a Starbucks drink, the Times repeats [2]the zealotry: "The phasing out of trans fats from all city restaurants, not just fast-food chains, won't do much about the obesity epidemic but it could save people from heart attacks and death if administered properly."


Source URL: http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/obesity-epidemic

Links:
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/nyregion/06fat.html?ref=nyregion
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/opinion/06wed2.html
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[4] http://archive2.mrc.org/division/timeswatch
[5] http://archive2.mrc.org/category/health
[6] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/timeswatchorg
[7] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/timeswatch
[8] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/nytimes
[9] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/newyorktimes
[10] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/trans-fats
[11] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/diet
[12] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/obesity
[13] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/newyorkcity
[14] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/editorial-0
[15] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/epidemic
[16] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org