And here’s some links that I found. All sounded interesting.
For the first time in more than 25 years, Americans aren't getting any fatter
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The percentage of overweight adults has stayed the same recently, but it's still at an all-time high. 'You can only get so fat,' one physiologist says.
I’m afraid it will have to stay that way. Weight reduction would cause a dramatic drop in cotton sales worldwide. Farmers would default on their loans. Cotton pickers would have to go on welfare. A million Chinese workers laid off. A tragedy!
FDA contemplating crackdown on salt
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The AMA, which says Americans should consume 50% less sodium, has joined consumer groups asking for government intervention.
It’s about time. I’ve seen people putting salt on pizza. What are they thinking? People; we’re our own worst enemy.
And then I was thinking about
And then there are the quotes to look at.
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. - Herman Melville
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. - Fred Allen
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. - Woody Allen
Fools rush in where fools have been before. - Unknown
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. - Henri Poincare
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. - Jack Benny
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell
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