Back in 2001, Men's Fitness magazine declared Houston the "Fattest City in America." Then-mayor Lee Brown, not hewing to the Hollywood adage that any publicity is good publicity so long as they spell your name right, promptly sent a delegation to Philadelphia, the previous year's champ, to discover how they had shed their title as The City of Blubbery Love. When Houston retained the crown the following year, out came the big guns. Jared......

A new study coming out of the Baylor College of Medicine suggests that the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy has led to real improvements in the way that the state’s middle school students eat. The findings, published in this month’s American Journal of Public Health, analyzed lunch records in south Texas middle schools before and after both district- and state-wide changes took place. The research team found that school lunches after the 2004 policy was......