Move away from your La-Z-Boy. Don't trust that bar stool. Get a restraining order against your wingback. The geniuses at Coca-Cola have figured out why we're so overweight and -- drum roll, please -- it's the chairs that are the culprit.

No, this isn't a joke. Yesterday, Ottawa physician Yoni...

Dear Mrs. Obama,

As you celebrate the third anniversary of your signature childhood obesity program, Let's Move, I have to ask this question: What the heck happened?

You started out so boldly, with a focus on nutrition policy. That focus and your support led to the passage of...

In its continuing frenzy to silence potential critics, Coca-Cola issued a press release recently that announced the following:

Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., has been nominated to stand for election to the Company's Board of Directors at its Annual Meeting of Shareowners in April.

Dr. Gayle, 57, is...

If you want a prime example of how Big Soda successfully uses its "philanthropy" (e.g., deep-pockets) to silence potential critics, look at the embarrassing mess in which the storied NAACP and the Hispanic Federation now find themselves embroiled.

Both of these organizations have close ties to...

In a sickening development involving the First Lady's Let's Move! initiative to improve the nutrition, fitness and health of the nation's children, Beyoncé, a public endorser of Let's Move!, accepted a

Coca-Cola, battered by research that shows its sugary drinks are heavily related to our nation's epidemic of obesity and besieged by the introduction/passage of sugary drink taxes and portion caps, is fighting back. They just unveiled a new commercial in which they attempt to convince Americans that they...

I testified at the packed hearing in New York City on Wednesday July 24th in favor of Mayor Bloomberg's sugary drink portion size cap.

If I had to sum up the industry opposition expressed at the hearing it would be:

• We need more focus on physical activity and less...

Deja vu all over again?

In June, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a controversial cap on sugary drink portion sizes. If the proposal is passed, sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces will no longer be able to be sold in the city's restaurants, stadiums, food carts and movie...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a gutsy guy. Thwarted twice in his efforts to cut sugary drink consumption (the mayor supported, unsuccessfully, a New York state tax on sugary drinks and a New York City proposal to restrict the use of food stamps to buy sugary beverages), Bloomberg has come up...

Something remarkable happened recently in the world of food reform.

The pink slime debacle created the perfect storm of food system change, thanks to a combination of evocative language, consumer activism, arrogant industry behavior, viral social media, relentless mainstream media reporting and scientists willing to go on the record....

The best summation I've heard of the pink slime debacle comes from blogger and petitioner Bettina Elias Siegel. The use of lean finely textured beef (LFTB) in ground beef," said Ms. Siegel, is "one of those practices that can thrive only in obscurity."

And therein...

Have Americans been slimed, again? The USDA's announcement on Thursday that school districts will be able to opt out of an ammonium-hydroxide treated ground beef filler known as both Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) and "pink slime" is not exactly inspiring confidence.

According to the USDA news...

The meat industry and the USDA just don't get it.

Americans are repulsed to learn that "pink slime," an unappetizing industrial slurry of cow connective tissue and low-grade beef scraps, is being added, surreptitiously, to supermarket ground beef as well as meat served in the National...

There are 32 million reasons why the USDA's new school meal standards are good news. That's the number of children who participate in the National School Breakfast and Lunch programs in the U.S. and who will soon be served far more nutritious, and hopefully delicious school...

America's foremost peddler of excessive butter, cream, salt and sugar, chef Paula Deen, has finally confirmed rumors that she was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes three years ago. Her timing for this announcement was clearly no accident as she also revealed that she is now a paid spokesperson...

As a longtime, food reformer (I got my start trying to improve the food in our school district), many people wrongly imagine that I live a life more ascetic than a monk. And often their comments about food are really weird.

I've had numerous folks in my town stare...

This hasn't been a banner year for improving America's food system, food environment or food policies. A look back demonstrates that not only have we failed to make any new progress in food and nutrition policy, but we actually appear to be moving backwards in some instances. Here's why:

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