Starting next month the Navajo Nation will be the first place in the United States to place a tax on junk food. Members can expect a 2 percent sales tax on garbage like: pastries, chips, soda, desserts, fried foods, sweetened beverages, and other shit with no nutritional value that makes us all perpetually sick. …
After 1,000 microwave meals and 700 episodes of his popular YouTube series, Freezerburn, frozen food guru Gregory Ng has peeled back his last plastic film and slipped the sleeve off of his final Hot Pocket. The self-appointed Frozen Food Master abruptly quit on-camera in the middle of a review last Friday over an…
Twinkies are back. No one should be surprised. It's obvious that the Twinkie would reemerge from the maws of death like a creme-filled Lazarus because each Twinkie is built to outlive us all. After the apocalypse, the Cockroach King's palace will be built out of Twinkies. He will sleep on a bed made out of a Big Mac.
The beef-fat filled yellow cancer cake might just survive to murder us from the inside out for generations to come! Rejoice! Although Hostess is imploding like so many Snowballs in your intestines, the company's most iconic brand might just make it, after all.
Here's a little something for you from the department of counterintuitive findings: It turns out that selling junk food in schools doesn't actually have anything to do with making kids being obese. Are you fucking kidding me? After the countless hand motions we've all wasted scrolling through articles urging us to…
A growing body of evidence indicates that there's a reason it's so hard for so many people to just stop eating junk food— it's just as addictive as illegal drugs. This changes everything. Chocoholism is real, and it's no laughing matter, Cathy cartoons. All those songs you thought were coded odes to heroin and…
America is suffering from a current lack of screens on every possible fucking surface, says no one. So it's no surprise that McDonalds is getting in on the action by launching its own in-restaurant TV channel, so its patrons taking comfort in their sandwiches made of chemicals designed to approximate meat and…
College Humor dreamed up these very-realistic names for iconic candies we all know and love. But we do have a few additions: "Stuck In My Braces" for Swedish Fish, "What's That Sore In My Mouth?" for Warheads, and the "You Broke My Dental Work" for JuJu Bees (true story). You could probably substitute the name "It's…
Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are positioning themselves against the anti-junk-food zealotry of people like MeMe Roth. Does that mean every time I eat a cookie I'm supporting the Tea Party?
A Brooklyn woman, worried that people might mistakenly think Fruit Roll-Ups (or Gushers!) are healthy, has filed a lawsuit against the company. To which we say: Leave our fruity snacks alone. What's next, Shark Bites? [NYDN]
• According to a study, two thirds of British women are totally bored with their lives. Perhaps more importantly, 7 out of 10 women are "fed up with being broke."
"In effect Susan G. Komen for the Cure... is helping to fuel unhealthy diets and obesity across America, an odd plan given that diet and obesity certainly impact on both the incidence and recurrence of breast cancer." [Weighty Matters]
This Easter, National Geographic asked readers to submit pictures of peeps in various places. The results are amazing. Consider this a reminder to stop by your local drugstore and take advantage of day-after discounts. [BlackBook]
A Danish study found that drinking a quart or more of cola a day is linked to lower sperm counts. But don't blame Coke just yet - an unhealthy lifestyle could be the cause of the lower-quality swimmers. [Reuters]
A new and weirdly snarky study points out the obvious: Movie food is not healthy. On popcorn: "They don't call them tubs for nothing." And: "Suggestion: Move your cardiologist's phone number to your speed-dial before the lights go down." [NYPost]
Two Senators have proposed a bill that would bar companies from advertising junk food to kids. According to Double X, it's "bound to be popular with voters" — but is curbing ads really the way to improve kids' health?
Something to think about this Halloween: A new study has found that children born to mothers who ate large amounts of licorice while pregnant perform poorly on cognitive tests and are more likely to show disruptive behavior. [EurekAlert]
While we believe the bacon meme is pretty much over, that isn't stopping us from drooling over this: Sir Francis Bacon Peanut Brittle. Viva la bacon! [NYT]
To be completely honest, I am a little disappointed that this gummy bacon is strawberry flavored, but its probably for the best. [Random Good Stuff]
A new study says "moms with many negative thoughts and feelings" tend to give their kids more fatty or sugary snacks.
