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Are Food Marketers Facing Their Mubarak Moment? Fred Greaves/Reuters

Are Food Marketers Facing Their Mubarak Moment?

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

The Reasons for Walmart's Healthy Foods Initiative Chris22020/flickr

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

Prohibition: The Wrong Way to Improve Child Nutrition pixonomy/flickr

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

The Obesity Wars: Time for a Truce djjewelz/flickr

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

How to Fight Obesity: Befriend the Bad Guys loop_oh/flickr

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.

Don't Ban Soda Purchases: A Better Way to Put Food Stamps on a Diet swruler9284/flickr

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.

The Unlikely Way to Fight Obesity TheTruthAbout.../flickr

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.

Obesity: Why Consumers Can't Fight It stu_spivack/flickr

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.

Why Activists Alone Can't Stop Obesity dj @ oxherder arts/flickr

Why Activists Alone Can't Stop Obesity

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

The Minds Behind the Shopping Carts eddie.welker/flickr

The Minds Behind the Shopping Carts

Grocers worry most about day-to-day operations—and profit margins are razor-thin. Inside a pro-obesity mindset.

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