Advertising: A Campaign to Draw Doctors to a Weight-Loss Program
With Medicare set to start reimbursing physicians for obesity treatment in January, a new campaign is directing ads both at patients and at physicians.
Fit for Life’s Challenges
A sixth book, another job in television and other opportunities are on the way for the fitness guru Jillian Michaels.
Morning Joe Discovers How Rep. Aaron Schock Got His ‘Rippling Abs’
Rep. Aaron Schock and Men's Health have started up a campaign to make us all feel terrible about ourselves and our bodies. Oh, wait. I misread that. They're actually trying to get Americans "to lose weight and get healthier this summer" as part of the Fit for Life Summer Challenge. Of course, their...
Fox & Friends Blames Fat American Actors For Brit Playing Superman
When the news was announced that the upcoming Superman movie had found its lead, many people were thinking, "Who's this Henry Cavill guy?" We at Mediaite, however, were thinking, "Oh, man, I can't wait till Fox & Friends finds out." For, you see, Cavill is a British actor and we knew that Superman...
U.S. Stalls in Its Push to Limit Food Ads Aimed at Children
An effort to forge tougher advertising standards that favor healthful products has hit industry opposition.
Baseball Players Join First Lady to Fight Obesity
Thirty television and 30 radio spots, customized for each Major League Baseball team, will encourage children to become active.
Fox News Anchor: Pot “Munchies” Could Lead to More Obesity Than Sugary Sodas
San Francisco is considering a law that would ban most sodas, which has some residents up in arms about their personal right to eat and drink what they choose, with others using the frightening statistics about soda consumption to defend their new proposal. During a debate on the topic today, a Fox News anchor understood...
Marc Ambinder: Unlikely Champion for Quilts Rights
The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder took amused offense, on Twitter, over the most bizarre bit of social criticism you’re ever likely to see. Sharra Vostral, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and History at the University of Illinois, uncovers the coded, gender-based insult behind the metaphoric use of the term “patchwork” in an Ambinder article...
Right Wing Peppers FDA with Criticism Over Salt Regulations
According to a recent Washington Post report, the Food and Drug Administration is finalizing a plan to reduce the amount of salt in processed foods, one which will eventually include legal limits on the delicious mineral.
Of course, this prompted right-wing sites like Hot Air and Redstate to collectively cry, "...from my...
Woman Who Wants To Be 1000 lbs Becomes Cable News Fodder
Move over, Balloon Boy. Pull over, Prius Dude. There's a new spectacle to feed the voracious cable news beast, and this one really lets the media in on the act. Donna Simpson, a 600-pound Old Bridge, NJ woman, is all over the news today because she's on a diet... (cue blandly surprised news-anchor-voice)...
Michelle Obama On Childhood Obesity: “This Isn’t Something We Can Fix With A Bill In Congress”
It has long been the tradition of First Ladies to become advocates for children-related causes. And Michelle Obama is no different, taking up the issue of child (and adult) obesity that has reached critical levels in America. Her latest platform? A Newsweek cover story.
Diet Drug Maker Glaxo to Pay for a Film on Eating
Glaxo, the maker of the weight-loss product Alli, will try to educate Americans about obesity — and increase Alli sales — by financing a documentary about eating.
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