March 26, 2009

It is Fight Back Friday again!

Food renegade

This will be my third, count 'em, third week posting to The Food Renegade's Fight Back Friday.

And my submission for the week? Is Big Food like Big Tobacco - my reflections on a recent paper by Yale and Michigan researchers studying obesity and how Big Food contributes to it - using some tactics favored by Big Tobacco.



Mar 26, 2009 11:49:45 PM | Fight Back Fridays

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