[Leisler]

Since the go-go Government had introduced the new 'food pyramid', obesity and diabetes have soared, and heart disease hasn't changed. Oh well, a billion dollars of fluff down the drain.

Typical government featherbedding for jobs. I suppose there must be thousands of nicely paid, no lifting, in by 9 and out by 3, government jobs concerning 'diet.'

Hey, remember pill addict, my back-my back Kennedy’s ‘Presidents Medal of Fitness’ program from the ‘60s? We were all going to wear cheap blue windbreakers with little patches. Right. I’d just wish the FedGov would just figure how to pour concrete and do expansion joints so my kidneys wouldn’t be pissing blood from their soviet quality road building. When local, state and fed’s can build something that isn’t falling apart before the project is done, they can start preaching.

Anyways, I suppose with the successful war on smokers, next is going to be the chubbys and those that can’t walk half a mile. Someday in order to get FedGov sheeple health care, you’ll have to prove you can meet age physical fitness standards.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Everything in excess!
To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks.

LAZARUS LONG

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Anyways, I suppose with the successful war on smokers, next is going to be the chubbys and those that can’t walk half a mile. Someday in order to get FedGov sheeple health care, you’ll have to prove you can meet age physical fitness standards.

And therein lies the rub. With national healthcare government will assume the right to control almost everything you do, because "they" are paying for it even if it is your money. We will also see euthanizing the elderly because they cost too much to keep healthy and alive.

Throw in Global Warming and the environmental police to control all that business does and, voila!, complete government control of everything.

Do you think there may be a leftist plan afoot?

[ikka]

I am half Italian, 45% German and a little Irish. I love potatoes, a good arabbiata pasta sauce, and sausages.

I find that having a good spicy food every once in a while keeps the viruses and colds away. Have something that hurts a bit every week, plus a bunch of garlic if you enjoy it, and you will be fine.

[villagerjoel]

I think that too many of us eat too much AND the government programs are a waste of money and time.

[mysterio]

I suppose with the successful war on smokers

Food addicts didn't stand up for smokers, so they take what they get. We've been warning them for over a decade, but they were too busy walking past, fake coughing and giving us crappy looks as we stood outside the restaurant having a smoke. I hope they enjoy the machine they created turning on them.

[dakine]

Just like the headline...

[SpookBrat]

I say eat what you want. It's all genetics anyway. My Austrian grandfather smoked unfiltered Camels and ate bacon and eggs for breakfast, meat and potatoes for dinner, lived until he was 94 and died a painless death with a sound mind. I guess if he had never smoked, maybe he could have lived 15 more years. LOL

[Tijeras_Slim]

Hey, remember pill addict, my back-my back Kennedy’s ‘Presidents Medal of Fitness’ program from the ‘60s? We were all going to wear cheap blue windbreakers with little patches.

You've been nursing this grudge a long time. I like that.

[HungarianGypsy]

**Freeper Kitchen Ping**

[Mr. Jeeves]

Glassner notes a study showing that as meat consumption and blood cholesterol levels increased in groups of Greeks, Italians and Japanese, their death rates from heart disease decreased.

The low-fat diet is going to go down in history as the greatest fraud ever devised...and most doctors are still pushing it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Anyways, I suppose with the successful war on smokers, next is going to be the chubbys and those that can’t walk half a mile. Someday in order to get FedGov sheeple health care, you’ll have to prove you can meet age physical fitness standards."

Well, you nailed it. I have nothing to add. (And that rarely happens, LOL!)