Over the weekend a friend shared on TLT’s Facebook page this post from The Daily, which compares school lunches from the fattest and fittest counties in the nation, Greene County, AL and Routt County, CO, respectively. According to The Daily, the school food in Routt County, where only 14% of adults are obese, includes “seasonal [...]
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[The following piece originally appeared on the website of The Guardian.] New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made headlines by announcing his administration’s plan to ban the sale of sugary drinks offered in containers larger than 16 ounces. The proposed “large soda” ban would affect food service establishments like restaurants, movie theaters and street vendors, [...]
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Just before the holiday weekend I finally finished viewing all four installments of the HBO documentary on obesity, “Weight of the Nation.” I’d been contacted by one of the show’s producers months before and was eagerly anticipating the show’s debut. So I was surprised to encounter so much negative feedback about it before I watched. [...]
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Now that school is almost out and the pace in the TLT household is slowing down, it’s my goal to tackle a teetering bedside stack of kid-and-f00d reading. So this summer you can look forward to several book reviews and – yay! – book giveaways to add to your own summer reading list. One of [...]
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The New York Times reports today on a study finding that the incidence of diabetes and prediabetes among teenagers has significantly increased in the last ten years, even while rates of teen overweight and obesity have held steady. While the study’s findings are not conclusive, it indicates that nearly one in four American teens are on the verge of developing [...]
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As many of you know, I’ve long been concerned about the quality of the so-called “a la carte” items sold by my district, Houston ISD (the nation’s seventh largest) in its cafeterias and snack bar lines. These foods, offered in direct competition with the federally reimbursable meal and sold only to turn a profit, tend [...]
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During my December blogging vacation I read a Los Angeles Times piece in which a fitness and nutriton expert, Melinda Sothern, posited that at least some blame for the current obesity epidemic can be directed at women who gave birth during the 1950s and 60s. Here’s her theory: under their doctors’ guidance, many women in the 50s and [...]
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By now most of you have probably either read or heard about Tara Parker-Pope’s cover story in Sunday’s New York Times magazine, “The Fat Trap,” which reviews the most recent obesity science to explain why maintaining weight loss can be close to impossible for the vast majority of dieters. In a nutshell: For years, the [...]
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Well, it was only a matter of time before right wing commentators would seize with glee upon news reports that LA students dislike the district’s new, healthier school food. In her post on today’s National Review Online, conservative pundit Michelle Malkin opens with this provocative lead: The road to gastric hell is paved with first lady Michelle Obama’s [...]
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The Plain Dealer‘s Cleveland.com site and other media outlets report today that a 200-pound eight-year-old has been removed from his Cleveland Heights, Ohio home and placed into foster care due to an alleged failure by his mother to follow doctor’s orders to address his obesity. According to The Plain Dealer report, the child originally came to [...]
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