Denmark Repeals Its Fat Tax: Lessons For The World

(BRUSSELS) — Having you pay 14 cents more for your burger to help you lose weight was perhaps not such a good idea after all. This is apparently what the Danish government concluded when it decided last week to scrap what is believed to be the world’s first fat tax, imposed just over one year […]

Magda Fahsi
By Magda Fahsi
Frosting drips from doughnuts after dipping at Doughnut Plant on New York's Lower East Side, Friday Jan. 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

(BRUSSELS) -- Having you pay 14 cents more for your burger to help you lose weight was perhaps not such a good idea after all. This is apparently what the Danish government concluded when it decided last week to scrap what is believed to be the world’s first fat tax, imposed just over one year ago. Plans to introduce a tax on sugar next year have

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OWS Picks Up Pieces As Gov’t Neglects Victims Left Homeless After Sandy

(NEW YORK) MintPress – If you go to Occupy Wall Street’s website these days, it’s all about Sandy. “We Got It,” screams a posting. Indeed, in  the past two weeks, Occupiers have set up a massive do-it-yourself response to the hurricane, helping victims in some of the hardest hit areas of New York City, many […]

Lisa Barron
By Lisa Barron
In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo, at YANA (You are Never Alone), an outreach center that is currently housing Occupy Sandy, a volunteer aid organization in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York, volunteers and those seeking assistance stand outside. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

(NEW YORK) MintPress – If you go to Occupy Wall Street’s website these days, it’s all about Sandy. “We Got It,” screams a posting. Indeed, in  the past two weeks, Occupiers have set up a massive do-it-yourself response to the hurricane, helping victims in some of the hardest hit areas of New York City, many of whom are still without power, heat

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Patients Often Find Getting Coverage For Eating Disorders Is Tough

When she was 5 years old, Chevese Turner had her first binge eating disorder episode. The 44-year-old recalls sneaking a box of colorful ice cream cones from the kitchen and eating as many as she could alone in her room. Over the years, she found herself repeating that practice in sporadic, emotional episodes that left […]

Shefali S. Kulkarni
By Shefali S. Kulkarni
A girl sits during a photo shoot, ribs showing through her skin. (Photo by Danila Panfilov via Flikr)

When she was 5 years old, Chevese Turner had her first binge eating disorder episode. The 44-year-old recalls sneaking a box of colorful ice cream cones from the kitchen and eating as many as she could alone in her room. Over the years, she found herself repeating that practice in sporadic, emotional episodes that left her with an

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Lakota Sioux Nation Leaves America

(CHICAGO) — America betrayed them and all Native Peoples. Throughout U.S. history and earlier, genocide was policy. Historian Ward Churchill explained four centuries of systematic slaughter. It went on from 1492-1892. It continues today against Native culture. Churchill estimated around 100 million Native people throughout the Americas “hacked apart with axes and swords, burned alive […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
Protesters carry an U.S. flag emblazoned with an American Indian during march in Chicago, Tuesday, May 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

(CHICAGO) -- America betrayed them and all Native Peoples. Throughout U.S. history and earlier, genocide was policy. Historian Ward Churchill explained four centuries of systematic slaughter. It went on from 1492-1892. It continues today against Native culture. Churchill estimated around 100 million Native people throughout the Americas

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The Not So Sweet Smell of Success

Throughout the Republican and Democratic conventions, the theme of success was touched upon. Republicans went to great lengths to paint President Obama as someone who was denigrating “success” and the Democrats countered by simply reassuring the American public, contrary to what Republicans are saying, they admired success as well. A childish back-and-forth, to say the […]

Edward Rhymes
By Edward Rhymes
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney makes comments on the killing of U.S. embassy officials in Benghazi, Libya, while speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Throughout the Republican and Democratic conventions, the theme of success was touched upon. Republicans went to great lengths to paint President Obama as someone who was denigrating “success” and the Democrats countered by simply reassuring the American public, contrary to what Republicans are saying, they admired success as well. A childish

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Survey Shows Few ACOs Ready For Financial Risk

Few hospitals interested in becoming accountable care organizations are ready to take on financial risk, according to a survey released Friday from The Commonwealth Fund. “We’re really still at the very beginning of the adoption curve of the ACO model,” says lead author Anne-Marie Audet, who researches health system quality and efficiency at Commonwealth. “The challenge is […]

Jenny Gold
By Jenny Gold
A doctor talks with patients at a hospital Wednesday, July 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Few hospitals interested in becoming accountable care organizations are ready to take on financial risk, according to a survey released Friday from The Commonwealth Fund. "We’re really still at the very beginning of the adoption curve of the ACO model,” says lead author Anne-Marie Audet, who researches health system quality and efficiency at

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