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Calorie-Counting Machines Are Pure Evil
GE has developed a device that can analyze the calorie count of your dinner. Good for science—but we're already in a bloody mess with our diets, and we don’t need anything else that turns food into a mathematical equation.
The Fight Over School Lunch Mandates Is Going Nowhere
In Washington D.C., the issue of school lunch programs and the drastic reforms to them have become entrenched in a political quagmire as thick as slop. While fat politicians bicker, kids are left in the middle of the argument. Who wants a Sloppy Joe?
Fat-People Medical Equipment is on the Cusp of a Boom
A new report says that 62.7 percent of Australian adults were overweight or obese in 2012, up by 1.5 per cent on 2008. That's good news if you're in the XXXL medical equipment racket.
We Talked to Kids on London's Controversial Fast Food Mile
Kids are getting fat. This is an indisputable fact. I went down to West Green Road—London's "fast food mile”—to talk to the mass exodus of grease-craving school children who waddle directly from the gates and into the nearest food shops.
The New Zealand Doctor Who Wants to Wipe Out Soft Drinks
Gerhard Sundborn, the founder of anti-soda group FIZZ, wants to take sugary fizzy drinks off the country's shelves by 2025.
Hey, Fat Lazy Adults, Stop Slagging Off British Kids
We're setting children a bad example and blaming them for following it.
Fat Camp Mem'ries
When I was 14 I went to fat camp. It was completely voluntary. The only problem was that I wanted to go to Camp Shane, a famous fat camp in the Catskills that has a great reputation.