give me liberty and death…heck yeah I would rather die fat and happy than skinny and miserable…they have moved on my cigarettes they will be on the fatties food soon I just had a conversation today with a cashier who was talking about not liking cigarettes and I told her she might be happy with stopping smokers from doing something she doesn’t like but the government will be coming for something she likes in due time because the government eventually comes for EVEYTHING!

I’d comment, but I’m too busy with my new business….. producing and marketing chocolate covered bacon.

s&b

You don’t want to end up in the second stage, like Chris Matthews, whereby you are constantly mistaken for Mr. Maddow’s houseboy.

you’ll have twinkie cops on every corner.

I almost threw up when I heard of deep fried twinkies. It’s almost too much for me. Almost.

It is ironic to me to read claims to the right of liberty and death juxtaposed with repudiation of the same for a researcher who uses his liberties to save others from death. If I have a right to my Twinkies, he surely has a right to understand the effect of such things on his health as well as share that knowledge with others. We indeed have every right to choose our lifestyle, but as hard as it might be for some to believe it, there are millions of people in this country who don’t understand or even have access to basic health information (ask my friends who work in the inner city to help prevent the unnecessary deaths and health complications that ruin the lives of these individuals and their families). If people choose death let it be out of a true choice and not ignorance. According to the CDC, cardiovascular and heart disease kills one person every minute here in the United States, making it the number one cause of death. It is also a major cause of disability. For those of us with family members who have suffered through and died from these consequences of choice, the reality is clear. It is certainly wishful thinking that that eating poorly will only knock a few years off the end of your life, leaving you untouched for the rest of it.

I wish more people would find their adventure in life beyond the local fast food joint. The wonders are vast and there for all to experience. I wish you could join me and my friends who climb the tall mountain peaks, swim from island to island in the Caribbean, trek across the Gobi desert of Mongolia, complete triathlons in Hawaii, ride the coast of California on a bike, or even simply run in a local 5K. For me, eating in a way that fuels my passions is no sacrifice. Waking up each morning bursting with an energy that will last the entire day, without relying on caffeine for some pick-me-up, is my joy. Tell me I’m missing something and I’ll tell you it is you who are indeed the one devoid of the true luxuries of life. Try it, my friends, and see if you go back. Your body is a temple, treat it that way and it will pay you back. =)

P.S. And if Obama has his way it looks like I’ll be paying for your hospital bills, so for the sake of my pocketbook (and yours) let’s do all things in balance, eh?

anyone else see this TV ad going around for WWW.LETSACTNOW.ORG – I’m certainly not going to bother to visit the site, but the ad goes on about “What you put on your Plate effects us all” and “How your Food choices effect Global Warming” …. No doubt an attack on the Beef industry, someone is always coming up with a way to attack the Beef industry and they cash in on the Global WARMING paranoia…..

but they didn’t get Algores latest memos?!?!? It’s Climate Change! :eyeroll: Yet another Climate $cam group looking to cash in on everything our Indoctrination Factories are spewing into our kids’ heads.

They will be looking to ban some foods and tax like crazy what’s left over

America has a life expectancy of 77.9 years and Japan (which is #1) has 81.25 years. Let us examine these numbers? 3.35 years seperate the Japanese from the Americans, and Japan has a population of roughly 125 million people and the U.S. has 301 million. So, why did I bring up the years and the population, because the numbers were derived statistically from two seperate data sources with different samples. So if the error in the American sample is plus or minus 1.5% and the Japanese samples are +/- 1.5% than it can be shown that their statistically no difference. Again, I do not agree with the conclusion drawn by the writers of the story and the FDA is that 3 year difference is obviously showing a lack of equivalence. Also sample sizes are different, and to compare them without normalization is ambiguous. Keep in mind the 42 countries that beat America have to be somewhere in the 3 year difference. BTW 3 years is 3% of the life expectancy of Japan, not much in comparison with the absolute quantity.

And cheesecake…
and chocolate bars…
and (when we want to be healthy about it) bananas and apples and other fruit…
And we deep fry hard candy…
and macaroni and cheese…
and…
and…
and…

I don’t have a source because I read this years ago, but apparently the US does much more to save newborns than just about any other country. Most other countries, if a newborn doesn’t survive past a certain amount of time, they basically don’t count statistics-wise. Here, we do our best to save every infant (abortion debate aside) and count everyone, so our overall life expectancy is lower because of the newborns that only lived a very short time that aren’t counted in the statistics in other countries.

Oh, btw, you have the best new username that I’ve seen in quite a while here. Well done!