The French Declare War on Thinness

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in what seems to be a parallel to the War on Obesity we have in the US, in a law that fails even to define what “extreme thinness” means, but nonetheless recommends fines of up to €30,000 ($48,000) for the promotion of it, whatever it is.
Anthony Gregory, at The Beacon:
It’d be interesting to see if [...]

Your Child is Fat

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…because you let him watch TV and eat cake.
Recent studies by some people that probably think they’re pretty smart show that the more your child watches TV and less they sleep, the more the chance they have of being overweight. This is why I barely watch TV and stay up on my computer until 2AM [...]

You Are Too Healthy

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Or so says a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, “The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health”, via MarginalRevolution and The Economist blog.
As The Economist has it:
IF WE all had malaria, the incentive to pharmaceutical companies to develop a cure for malaria would be massive. In all probability, some company would then develop [...]

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