The Health Myths Around Obesity

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.