MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
She has said that she gets up at 4 AM to work out. No overweight woman would have arms like hers at her age. So she's not a stick figure-that makes her an overweight hypocrite?
Can't you impeach a First Lady?
I often hear this complaint from people who cook directed at people who don't. The notion basically holds that cooking isn't as inconvenient as people make it out to be. I don't know. I make my oatmeal in a pot at home--there's something blasphemous about microwaving it--but I don't own a dishwasher, and cleaning up actually is work. Moreover, I'm assuming people standing in that McDonald's line can text, tweet, e-mail or whatever while they wait.
The bigger thing here is understanding why people go to McDonald's in the first place. I strongly suspect that the entire experience is comforting. In a day of constant work, pushes and pulls, you have this one clean place, which is the same everywhere, dispensing joyful shots of sugar and salt. That's just me thinking about how I've eaten in the past--and also how I eat when my brain is crowded with everything besides what I'm eating.
I think what Bittman urges in his writing is consciousness. He wants people to think hard about what they're eating. I strongly suspect that people go to McDonald's for the exact opposite reason--to get unconscious. Understanding why that it is, goes beyond our food. It's about how we live.
Rush Limbaugh called Michelle Obama a hypocrite on his Monday show, saying that, while the First Lady advocates healthy eating, she "doesn't look like [she] follows her own...dietary advice" and would never be put on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue.
I think she's freakin' gorgeous.
That's rather disturbing. I get it, their schtick is thumbing their nose at the Food Police, but come on.Anyone who weighs in and tips the scale over 350 pounds before they order can eat a triple or quadruple bypass burger for free.
That's rather disturbing. I get it, their schtick is thumbing their nose at the Food Police, but come on.
boston.com
Should Heart Attack Grill restaurant be shut as a health hazard?
Posted by Deborah Kotz March 8, 2011
"I'll admit that I never heard of Heart Attack Grill, a restaurant in Chandler, Arizona that serves 8,000-calorie "quadruple bypass burgers" until the restaurant's 575-pound spokesman died last week at age 29. While Blair River didn't die of a heart attack, doctors say his extreme obesity made it tough to overcome the pneumonia he developed and died from.
The whole macabre tale begs the question: Is there a limit to how disgustingly fattening restaurant foods can be? Should the Food and Drug Administration, state health regulators, Michelle Obama step in to shut places down that really and truly raise our heart attack risk every time we eat?
After all, New York City has banned smoking in pretty much all public places since the Surgeon General reported that even being exposed to just one cigarette can cause irreversible lung damage. And Boston is also considering such a ban.
Heart Attack Grill -- thankfully not a nationwide franchise -- is a hospital themed restaurant where waitresses dress as nurses, take orders on prescription pads, and wrap tags around patients', ahem, patrons' wrists showing which foods they ordered. The restaurant certainly can't be accused of false advertising with its "flatliner fries" made with pure lard or its jolt soda packed with caffeine and sugar.
Anyone who weighs in and tips the scale over 350 pounds before they order can eat a triple or quadruple bypass burger for free. And all customers, regardless of their weight, get pushed to their car in a wheelchair after they consume one of burgers that leaves them two to three pounds heavier.
It's all fun and games until someone loses a life.
What do you think? Should Heart Attack Grill be shut down as a health hazard or celebrated as the freedom to indulge that makes us American?"
I hope it remains open.
It might become franchise
Amazon.com: The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things (9780465014903): Barry Glassner: Books
I hope it remains open.
It might become franchise
Amazon.com: The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things (9780465014903): Barry Glassner: Books
Of course it's the iron horse endorsing a nutrition-centered book written by a history major
The book you linked to is another unreliable source.What?
The book you linked to is another unreliable source.
Are you serious? You are. God, dude, it's like this: if you eat more sugars and fats than your organs can process, you put a strain on them. Any food that causes continual spikes in blood glucose levels is going to cause your pancreas to work so much harder and the beta cells will eventually say, "we can't do this anymore". There is just nothing to dispute. What is wrong with your types for thinking otherwise? Saturated fats, sugars, high starch, it all leads to clogged arteries, a fatty heart, a pancreas that just cannot keep up, glaucoma, damaged vessels in your feet and maybe hands, sleep apnoea, thyroid function... you need more? Where's the conspiracy? These systems in the body are all linked. It's all very straight forward and clear. Medical science hasn't got this wrong, horseman. You have.
How convenient that the iron horse didn't even acknowledge this post, let alone offer a meaningful response!