HCG Supplements, India And The FDA Ban
To the outcry of several supplement companies manufacturing them, the FDA finally went and banned use of homeopathic HCG concoctions as a weight loss supplement. Let’s look at the reasons.
Tag: obesity
Teens Smoke And Play Video Games To Lose Weight?
That 75% of overweight and obese teenagers want to lose weight is the good news. The bad news is that some have rather peculiar ideas about how to best go about it.
Denmark Introduces Fat Tax
As a worldwide first, Denmark introduced a fat food tax – anything with more than 2.3% saturated fats will now cost extra. Denmark also has bad eating habits, but a rather low obesity rate. Why?
Junk Food And Free Speech
In April this year, something remarkable happened: Several large governmental agencies got together and proposed a set of voluntary marketing guidelines food manufacturers should follow to curb childhood obesity. They say it threatens their right of free speech.
More People Are Fat Than Starving
The Red Cross reports that there are now more obese than starving people in the world. Something is going really, really wrong. Why are we able to eat ourselves to death, when for others even the tiniest morsel is an illusion?
