“Nutrition” on The Daily Caller

Speaking with New York radio host Curtis Sliwa, Gov. Mike Huckabee rejected Sarah Palin’s mocking of Michelle Obama’s childhood nutrition campaign. The former Arkansas governor and Fox News host came out in support of the first lady’s efforts against the nation’s “obesity crisis.” (more)

Happy Meals are again under attack, this time in court. (more)

With his wife by his side, President Obama on Monday signed the child nutrition bill, strongly pushed by the first lady, who has made nutrition part of her campaign to help the young get healthy. (more)

Fed up Americans recently united in telling the government not to touch their collective junk and the message appears to be getting through, at least somewhat, as the Transportation Security Administration is reportedly reevaluating the new enhanced pat-down procedure in response to public outcry. But the TSA’s taxpayer-funded grope-a-thon is not the only unpopular policy that received public rebuke last month. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have temporarily blocked legislation to feed school meals to thousands more hungry children. (more)

Debt, debt, debt. We’re up to our necks in it. Right now, we owe over $13.7 trillion. Let’s write that out: $13,700,000,000,000-plus. That’s $44,000 for you and $44,000 for me. And $44,000 for each of our children. (more)

On behalf of the NAAFA — a civil rights organization dating back to 1969 working to end discrimination against people of size — we appreciate your efforts to start an open, honest dialogue about the ramifications of childhood bullying. We know that bullying during the formative years of childhood, adolescence and teen years results in horrifying emotional and physical trauma, often resulting in suicide. While your appeal to stop bullying has highlighted certain minorities — such as children of certain races and ethnicities, self-identified LGBT children or children with disabilities — you have failed to include one group of children who are frequently subjected to some of the worse bullying: fat children. NAAFA believes that bullying for any reason is wrong and should be stopped at all costs. (more)

It’s the calories, dummy. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama’s campaign for healthier school lunches could be revived in Congress after two key Democrats said they will drop opposition to using funding from food stamps to pay for it. (more)

Arizona’s aptly-named Heart Attack Grill is offering free meals to anyone weighing in at over 350 pounds. Don’t believe us? Just ask its new 600-pound spokesman. (more)

Fast-food restaurants are stepping up efforts to market themselves and unhealthy food products to children and toddlers with television ads, websites and even their own menus, researchers said on Monday. (more)

Twinkies. Nutty bars. Powdered donuts. (more)

Americans will keep growing fatter until 42 percent of the nation is considered obese, and having fat friends is part of the problem, researchers said on Thursday. (more)

One day San Fran are world champions, and the next, no toys for you. (more)

Up to one in three American adults will have diabetes by 2050 unless something is done to curb unhealthy lifestyle trends in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Friday. (more)

Former leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin famously said that a single death is a tragedy but a million deaths is just a statistic.  His observation seems to have been proven yet again by the media feeding frenzy over the rescue operation in Chile for 33 copper miners trapped underground for two months. (more)

The House recessed without reauthorizing the child nutrition bill because Members couldn’t reconcile differences between anti-hunger and pro-nutrition interest groups. (more)

Sometimes celebrity idiocy is subtle, but it’s usually memorable. Take Jillian Michaels, for example. She’s the fitness masochist whose fame started with the “Biggest Loser” weight-loss reality show. Years of suspense-filled Tuesday night weigh-ins have made Michaels’ health advice the pop-culture “flavor of the month.” (more)

Is obesity contagious? (more)

For something so familiar, cooking is incredibly mysterious. Ask a home cook what happens to a steak in a pan—hell, ask most chefs. It gets hot. It gets brown. It gets juicy. How do you like yours, again? (more)