Thursday, November 29, 2007

Odds and Ends

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

By Karen Kaplan and Denise Gellene

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

By Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar

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 John Adams. Yes, that John Adams; the great patriot. He was the one who pushed the Alien & Sedition Act into law. With an administration like the one we are enduring right now, you have to think about history…a little bit. And so I searched and found this commentary from 2003.

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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