Showing posts with label Obesity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obesity. Show all posts

Monday, August 20, 2007

Fat states

From this article courtesy of the CalorieLab.

Maybe it has something to do with this:CNN coverage of this recent article. Go figure, kids prefer food wrapped in a McDonald's wrapper... Well, it's not quite the right experiment, but you get the idea.

Interestingly, the National Broadcasting Commission of Thailand is about to finalize restrictions on junk food ads for children. The proposed measures include a ban on junk food ads during children's programmes; prohibiting the use of children, cartoon characters, entertainers or celebrities as ad presenters; prohibiting marketing promotions using giveaways and lucky draws; and requiring ads to warn against consuming the products more than twice a day. Source

Edited (082207) to add a link:
What is the Right Way to Think About the Obesity ‘Epidemic’?
and the World Fatness Chart:
Check out other awesome illustrations by Wellington Grey.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

You Are What You Grow

An interesting article in the NY Times Magazine by Michael Pollan, exploring the politics of farming and its affect on our food supply and costs.
A provocative figure from Drewknowski and Darmon,

The economics of obesity: dietary energy density and energy cost (2005).
Related information from the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy.