Hank Cardello

Hank Cardello is the author of Stuffed. He is a former executive with Coca-Cola, General Mills, Nabisco, and Cadbury-Schweppes, and now serves as senior fellow and director of the Obesity Solutions Initiative at the Hudson Institute. More

Hank Cardello is the author of Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat. He is a former food industry executive with Coca-Cola, General Mills, Nabisco, and Cadbury-Schweppes, and now serves as senior fellow and director of the Obesity Solutions Initiative at the Hudson Institute.

Healthy Foods May Mean Healthier Stock Prices

Healthy Foods May Mean Healthier Stock Prices

Buying better-for-you foods won't just improve your diet. It'll juice the economy, too. More »

Can We Use Tax Credits to Stop Steadily Climbing Obesity Rates?

Can We Use Tax Credits to Stop Steadily Climbing Obesity Rates?

Adopting a new system with Calorie Credits and measuring Calorie Footprints will speed the growth of better-for-you food and drink brands. More »

How the Success of Light Beer Will Change Other Iconic Brands

How the Success of Light Beer Will Change Other Iconic Brands

When Miller Lite convinced men that a less filling beer was still macho, it became clear that lower-calorie, healthier offerings made sense. More »

How the Food Industry Can Solve Our Childhood Obesity Crisis

How the Food Industry Can Solve Our Childhood Obesity Crisis

At the Partnership for a Healthier America Summit, speakers argued that fighting obesity can be good for consumers and the bottom line More »

Can the Profit Motive End Obesity?

Can the Profit Motive End Obesity?

A new report from the Hudson Institute finally proves that packaged food and beverage companies that sell better-for-you products enjoy greater sales increases and returns More »

Are McDonald's and Walmart Winning the War on Obesity?

Are McDonald's and Walmart Winning the War on Obesity?

This week, the two companies adopted new tactics that could indicate a turning point in how the food industry fights fat More »

Paul Ryan: Obesity Savior?

Paul Ryan: Obesity Savior?

The congressman's budget plan might not be a good way to tackle the federal deficit, but his approach could help solve one of our biggest public health problems More »

The Secret to Healthy Food for All: School Buses

The Secret to Healthy Food for All: School Buses

Luring supermarkets to low-income communities is difficult—so why not bus low-income communities to the food? More »

Land of Milk and Calories: Have Grocery Aisle Displays Evolved?

Land of Milk and Calories: Have Grocery Aisle Displays Evolved?

An expert cruises through supermarkets to see whether they really have started marketing more "better-for-you" foods More »

The War on Happiness: Leave Happy Meals Alone

The War on Happiness: Leave Happy Meals Alone

A New York politician wants to ban Happy Meal-style fast food meals—but the measure wouldn't make us healthy More »

Cola Wars: Pepsi Is Number Three, and That's a Good Thing

Cola Wars: Pepsi Is Number Three, and That's a Good Thing

The soda world is topsy-turvy: Diet Coke now outsells Pepsi. A former Coke marketer explains what this means. More »

Are Food Marketers Facing Their Mubarak Moment?

Are Food Marketers Facing Their Mubarak Moment?

Three ways that American processed food manufacturers can avoid being toppled by hungry, angry consumers More »

The Reasons for Walmart's Healthy Foods Initiative

The Reasons for Walmart's Healthy Foods Initiative

By pushing produce and healthier foods, Walmart's "cuddle capitalism" could slim us down and bloat the company's profits More »

Prohibition: The Wrong Way to Improve Child Nutrition

Prohibition: The Wrong Way to Improve Child Nutrition

Proponents of candy bans shouldn't forget bathtub gin and speakeasies—the ancestors of today's junk-food black market More »

The Obesity Wars: Time for a Truce

The Obesity Wars: Time for a Truce

A former food executive attends a meeting of the American Public Health Association and is reminded that CEOs and professors need to fight fat—not each other More »

How to Fight Obesity: Befriend the Bad Guys

How to Fight Obesity: Befriend the Bad Guys

A former food industry executive argues that to slim down America, we have to turn food marketers into allies. Here's how. More »

Don't Ban Soda Purchases: A Better Way to Put Food Stamps on a Diet

Don't Ban Soda Purchases: A Better Way to Put Food Stamps on a Diet

Targeting specific products won't promote public health. Instead, we should be capping total calories. More »

The Unlikely Way to Fight Obesity

The Unlikely Way to Fight Obesity

An industry insider explains why the key to slimming America down isn't attacking food marketers. In fact, it's the reverse. More »

Obesity: Why Consumers Can't Fight It

Obesity: Why Consumers Can't Fight It

If restaurants, grocers, and academics can't stop obesity, can we do it ourselves? The reasons people usually fail. More »

Why Activists Alone Can't Stop Obesity

Why Activists Alone Can't Stop Obesity

Explaining the deadlock between the Retail Right (restaurants and grocers) and academia's Food Left More »

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