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The great fat debate

Are we eating ourselves to death? Who’s to blame for our national waistline? And is government intervention, such as zoing away fast-food restaurants, part of the solution? All week long, Kelly Brownell, director of Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, debates University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos, author of "The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health."

Dust-Up
Culture matters in the obesity debate
How much are the Great Fat Wars an artifact of class and cultural differences? How does that affect the way we talk about and act upon obesity?
September 21, 2007

Dust-Up
Obesity myths
What are the most common misconceptions about obesity, and who is spreading them?
September 20, 2007

Dust-Up
The best anti-obesity policies
What specific government policies, and what types of approaches, work best in combatting obesity?
September 19, 2007

Dust-Up
Why is our flab state business?
Specifically, what concern is it of the government's that Americans are getting fatter?
September 18, 2007

Dust-Up
How obese are we?
Is obesity truly an "epidemic"? What’s the size of our overeating problem?
September 17, 2007