The roil of media attention is unre...

The roil of media attention is unrelenting. The obesity crisis is upright copy, in all its permutations. In May, Time magazine's disguise story was Low-Carb Nation. "Nutritionists are horrified, if it were not that they can't stop the force that is reshaping the commons industry--and our bodies," its editorial team intoned.

This exaggeration comes in the wake of similar diet and health cloak stories, network news specials, a rising convolution of medical research targeting connections between meat and fat, and popular diets