- 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 Dont Mix (Townhall, June 1, 2006)
- Obesity Epidemics Heavy Costs (Scripps Howard News Service, July 7, 2005)
- Weight of Evidence: Its 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)
- Dont 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 Doesnt Work (National Review Online, June 6, 2003)
- The Atkins Diet Still Doesnt 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 Doesnt Work (Reason Online, Dec. 5, 2002)
- The Feds Low-Fat Fib (The New York Post, July 23, 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)
- Dont Buy the Fat Gene Myth (The New York Post, July 20, 2000)
- Obesity Denial Cant Fool Death (Bridge News, October 11, 1999)
- Sorry, Obesity Denial Doesnt Deny Death (Chicago Tribune, September 15, 1999)
- Its 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 (Investors 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 Tomorrows Combat (1997)
- One Nation Under Blob: Whats Gotten Into Us? (The American Spectator, January 1997)
- Procter & Gambles 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)
Michael Fumento is author of the book, The Fat of the Land. Read his additional work on cancer and nutrition.