Obesity Update – 2009/10/8
Study: After calorie postings in restaurants, people eat more calories.
No need to diet: tinkering with one gene may give you a longer, healthier life.
Claim: A big dose of sugar can immediately suppress your immune system: That makes you more vulnerable to colds, flu and other infections.
Bloggers’ verdict: the Surgeon General pick is too fat.
Regina Benjamin
If buttercups buzz’d after the bee
If boats were on land, churches on sea
If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows
And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse
If the mamas sold their babies
To the Gypsies for half a crown
If summer were spring
And the other way ’round
Then all the world would be upside down!
I guess if you are already eating “X” calories eating “X+1” isn’t that bad.
No question about it. She’s way too fat.
She looks like tons of fun.
Maintaining your weight is a personal choice, but one would think that public figures would be an example to others on how to live a happy and healthy lifestyle.
It is amazing how even when told an item is packed with calories, people still eat them. That may be because people don’t actually understand what a calorie means. In the future public health advocates will demand that menus also post the percentage of daily recommended calories and the miles you would have to run to work off the fat.
Just imagine, at the drive through… “Mucho Burrito: 1,100 calories; Daily Intake 50%; Jog: 20 miles”
Think how much money all the restaurants had to spend to post information that had no effect whatsoever on eating habits.