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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 7/30/2009

America's Moral Panic Over Obesity

— meganmcardle.theatlantic.com — With health care in the news, everyone's looking for magic bullets to save money.  Obesity seems to... be a growing favorite:  wouldn't it be great if we could make everyone look like Jennifer Anniston, and be cheaper to treat?  There are ... (more) America's Moral Panic Over Obesity

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inversesquare.wordpress.com - 7/29/2009

Why Andrew Sullivan is right about Megan McArdle, but not in the way he thinks.

— inversesquare.wordpress.com — I very rarely read Megan McArdle. She gets filtered by the “life is too short to read... stupid people” mesh. Specifically, in the area in which she claims expertise, economics, especially political economy she has neither formal training ... (more) Why Andrew Sullivan is right about Megan McArdle, but ...

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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 7/31/2009

More on Obesity: Is the Government to Blame?

— meganmcardle.theatlantic.com — Marc Ambinder, who has done a great deal of research on the subject, takes issue with what... I have written about obesity.  Since he wrote carefully, I think it deserves a careful response. McArdle approaches obesity as if it were a Foucauldian ... (more) More on Obesity: Is the Government to Blame?

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The Thins Versus the Fats
Opinionator — ... most of the public-health attention isn’t focused on getting people who are already obese to lose weight. It’s focused on making sure that people who are normal or overweight get no fatter. The Economist also speculates that Campos opinion may be informed by the fact he lives in Colorado, the only state with an obesity rate under 20 percent. In 1985, by comparison, no state had a rate over 14 percent. McArdle’s Atlantic colleague Marc Ambinder takes issue way she frames the issue: “ McArdle approaches obesity as if it were a Foucauldian construct: a category invented by the ...

More on Obesity: Is the Government to Blame?
Megan McArdle — Marc Ambinder, who has done a great deal of research on the subject, takes issue with what I have written about obesity.  Since he wrote carefully, I think it deserves a careful response. ...

Fat Wars
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — McCardle and Ambinder are having a back-and-forth over obesity: Megan interviewed Paul Campos who called obesity a fake problem, Marc –who is writing an article on waistline politics – responded, Megan fired back, Ambinder followed up and Megan went one more round. Here's Marc: McArdle is right that it it's not fair for government to lecture people about weight loss and exercise, but she's right for the wrong reason: policy choices -- ag subsidies, zoning laws, education and budget priorities -- create a flow that, ...