- Parke Wilde reports on some (not so) funny business with the pork checkoff (I am astounded that this hadn't been reported in the mainstream media)
- 82 potential causes of obesity (file this one under: "we have no idea what caused the rise in obesity")
- Joe Queenan at the WSJ is fed up with studies telling us what is and isn't healthy to eat (my favorite lines were: "The settlers at Jamestown did not come here dreaming of a steady diet of walnuts and olive oil. Those guys loved fats and carbs and sugar. America was built by men and women who never ate arugula.")
- Why is eating out more responsive to income than eating at home? Ori Heffetz has an interesting answer to the question in a paper in the Review of Economics and Statistics (an earlier ungated version is here). The answer: eating out is visible to others; eating at home isn't.
- Libertarian paternalism at work in school cafeterias (I have to admit that when I read stories like this, I think "libertarian paternalism" is just a fancy way of saying "advertising and promotion")