The Health Myths Around Obesity

• Not Fit for Combat (Forbes Online, November 18, 2009)
• Fat Chance (The American Spectator Online, August 29, 2007)
• Obesity Is Contagious (The American Spectator Online, August 1, 2007)
• Calories, not Chemicals, Make us Fat (The American Spectator Online, March 27, 2007)
• Obesity Goes to the Dogs (The American Spectator Online, January 18, 2007)
• TV and Tykes Don’t Mix (Townhall, June 1, 2006)
• Obesity Epidemic’s Heavy Costs (Scripps Howard News Service, July 7, 2005)
• Weight of Evidence: It’s Still Unhealthy to be Fat (The New Republic Online, May 4, 2005)
• Obesity: No Longer the American Disease (Scripps Howard News Service, March 24, 2005)
• Why Is Big Sugar So Bitter Towards Splenda? (Scripps Howard News Service, February 3, 2005)
• TV or Not TV: Fat is the Question (Scripps Howard News Service, January 27, 2005)
• Weighs and Means (The New Republic, January 14, 2005)
• Resolve to Keep Shysters from Your Diet Plans (Scripps Howard News Service, January 6, 2005)
• Diabetes in a Soda Can? (Scripps Howard News Service, Sept. 9, 2004)
• Medicare Help Obesity? Fat Chance (Scripps Howard News Service, July 22, 2004)
• Low Carbs and Lower Journalistic Standards (Scripps Howard News Service, May 27, 2004)
• Don’t Worry, Be Fatty? (Scripps Howard News Service, May 20, 2004)
• The Atkins Empire Strikes Back (Scripps Howard News Service, February 19, 2004)
• Low-carb Lunacy (Scripps Howard News Service, February 12, 2004)
• Fad Diet Failures (Scripps Howard News Service, November 13, 2003)
• Chic but Chubby (Scripps Howard News Service, October 16, 2003)
• On "Weighing Obesity" (Tech Central Station, August 21, 2003)
• Leave Ephedra Alone (Scripps Howard News Service, July 31, 2003)
• Parents to Blame for ’Little Butterballs’ (Scripps Howard News Service, July 24, 2003)
• Hopeless Fad: Sorry, the Atkins Diet Still Doesn’t Work (National Review Online, June 6, 2003)
• The Atkins Diet Still Doesn’t Work (Scripps Howard News Service, May 29, 2003)
• The Dangerous Legacy of Dr. Atkins (Scripps Howard News Service, April 24, 2003)
• Big Fat Fake: The Atkins Diet Controversy and the Sorry State of Science Journalism (Reason, March 2003)
• Fat Chance (The New Republic, February 17, 2003)
• Hold the Lard: The Atkins Diet Still Doesn’t Work (Reason Online, Dec. 5, 2002)
• Quick Living in the Fat Lane (The Washington Times, June 30, 2002)
• Denying the Danger of Obesity (May 15, 2002)
• Obesity Obliquity (Washington Times, December 10, 2000)
• Fat Kids? I Blame the Parents (National Post, December 1, 2000)
• Don’t Buy the ’Fat Gene’ Myth (The New York Post, July 20, 2000)
• Obesity Denial Can’t Fool Death (Bridge News, October 11, 1999)
• Sorry, Obesity Denial Doesn’t Deny Death (Chicago Tribune, September 15, 1999)
• It’s Activist Groups, Not Chips, Making People Sick (March 10, 1999)
• Heavy Silence (Reason Magazine, April 1998)
• The Deadly Silence Over Breast Cancer and Obesity (1998)
• One Nation, Overweight – When Will We Take Action? (1998)
• Living Off the Fat of the Land: The Only People Benefiting From Diet Books are the Authors (Washington Monthly, Jan-Feb 1998)
• Beware the "Fatlash" Books (1998)
• The New England Journal of Medicine Pooh-Poohs Its Own Obesity Findings (1998)
• Anti-Obesity Drug Is Heavy on Hype (1998)
• On the Thin Side of the World: Europeans Eat Less Than We Do, Exercise Informally (January 19, 1998)
• ’Fat’ Sheds Light on Weight Myths (The Detroit News, December 31, 1997)
• Are the Health Risks of Obesity Exaggerated? (Insight on the News, November 10, 1997)
• How The Government Fattens Us Up (Investor’s Business Daily, October 20, 1997)
• Land of the Fat (The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 29, 1997)
• The Loss of Two Popular Diet Drugs Ignites Search for Alternatives (CNN Morning News, September 17, 1997)
• Why We Need a New War on Weight (USA WEEKEND, September 14, 1997)
• Attack of the Giant Killer Food (1997)
• Busting the Low-Fat Dieting Myth (1997) (Excerpted from The Fat of the Land: The Obesity Epidemic and How Overweight Americans Can Help Themselves)
• Obesity Obeisance (1997)
• Shape Up for Tomorrow’s Combat (1997)
• One Nation Under Blob: What’s Gotten Into Us? (The American Spectator, January 1997)
• Procter & Gamble’s Non-fat Fat: Neither Satan Nor (Sigh) Savior (1996)
• Fakery Against Fake Fat (The Washington Times, November 13, 1996)
• Fatheads at FDA Opposing Best Interests of Fat Americans (1996)

Read a 1997 Salon Magazine interview with Michael Fumento.

Michael Fumento is author of the book, The Fat of the Land.

Read Michael Fumento’s additional work on cancer and nutrition.