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Doug Sellman's latest prescription for reducing obesity: Does the fast food industry need to be regulated? Prof Sellman believes onl...

If we're tallying the social costs of obesity, what should we make of this one? Obese men make more money than their slimmer counterpa...

If lack of physical activity is really to blame for increased obesity, rather than increased caloric intake, do we switch from soda taxes t...

Soda taxes don't do much to affect obesity. A new paper by Fletcher et al  in Health Economics looks at effects of American soda taxes a...

Gareth Morgan wanted restrictions on where "fake food" outlets might be located . Placement of junk food outlets –  local commun...

Should we blame fast food outlets for obesity? Canterbury student Alice Robertson thinks so . The University's press release on her in...

Your morning list of things worth knowing. Item the First : climate sensitivity may be lower than we'd thought ; this bends optimal po...

The obese cost public health systems less in the long term because they die earlier. And now it looks like those who are merely overweigh...

Chris Auld was prescient. If we require corrective policy to internalise pecuniary costs running through the public health system, then we h...

I chatted with Radio New Zealand about fat taxes  on Wednesday. I talked about the problems of defining healthy and unhealthy foods, and the...

Another day, another cost study. This time we're told that obesity costs New Zealand between $722,000,000 and $849,000,000 . Here'...

For now, it's just a proposal from the New Zealand healthists . Health officials worried about an obesity epidemic want fast-food adv...

You can't ban hate. You can put in laws banning discriminatory treatment in employment or consumer markets, but if the differences in tr...

Will Wilkinson and a colleague at The Economist have been sparring over paternalism. Where M.S., Wilkinson's colleague, argues paternali...

Blaming the victim, perhaps. But a new paper suggests personality traits correlate strongly with obesity outcomes. [HT: @bakadesuyo ] They ...