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  • Re: So Sad Prudie on Weight

    Thanks JudithS for your words. Looking at replies to this video in general I see a lot of trolling and also a lot of guys who just really don't get it. Being fat doesn't make you a monster, ask thousands of men who are happily married with a great sex life to a chubby gal. My husband had an interesting perspective also on this. His thought, ...
    Posted to Slate V by SuburbianPuck on September 3, 2008

  • So Sad Prudie on Weight

    Prudence, I have to admit, you have often taken controversial stances on letters that I have agreed with and then confused when people thought you were wrong. Well, I now understand those that thought you wrong. Significant weight gain in a short period is never a good thing and should be explored but I don't feel that is the core of the ...
    Posted to Slate V by SuburbianPuck on September 2, 2008

  • Fast Food is doing fine, lets concern ourselves with health

    I think that the article is a bit negative or pro fast food. It seems to me that if all an area has to eat is fast food then that is what they might be pulled to eat. It is easy to pull up to a drive thru and order as most of these people probably work hard with full time jobs and overtime to make end meets. They need to be thought about, not ...
    Posted to Human Nature by firequeen76 on August 3, 2008

  • LA City Council are communists !

    This an excellent example of big government that the republicans have been talking about getting rid of since the Reagan administration. Ironically this is happening while a republican is in the governor's office. City re-zoning in only poor areas should be illegal unless it to curb crime. Even then that's a touchy issue because it borders on ...
    Posted to Human Nature by gopsux.com on August 3, 2008

  • Re: Poverty and Bring Poor

    irvingchang:poverty ain't what it used to be. the poverty stricken ones i see these days have asses wider that the front seats of the cars they drive to use their USDA food stamp swipe cards. Oh, Irving. The increased rate of obesity is is one of the consequences of poverty. The cheapest foods are full of refined carbohydrates. Less ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by DJSeeker on July 26, 2008

  • Re: so, do you think the author is thin or fat

    righto physician! I was looking at my high school yearbook (1976) a couple days ago - good lord how much fatter kids are these days! Some fundamental shift in genetics in the last 30 years? Hardly. The kids today are relentlessly - and successfully - marketed to by companies (Big N Large) exploiting an unfortunate genetic quirk of humans - with a ...
    Posted to Green Room by mandrews58 on July 11, 2008

  • Define "wrong message"

    I appreciated this article, because as much as I loved Wall-E, it is refreshing to read something examining a point of view other than pure unadulterated awe. Additionally, I followed most of the links, and found the ''Junkfood Science'' article especially interesting. And I did walk out of the theater behind an overweight blonde man with a buzz ...
    Posted to Green Room by MissIngraham on July 11, 2008

  • Personal responsibility, people?

    This article was among the bigger loads of hogwash I've ever read. Genetics plays ''more'' of a role in obesity than behavior and diet? Bull. Travel some. Go to Asia. Maybe the Mediterranean. People are thin there. There simply aren't chubby children scarfing down Happy Meals everywhere you look (like there are here). But Asian and ...
    Posted to Green Room by ENH on July 11, 2008

  • Illogical Genetic Theory

    If genes contribute more to obesity than diet, why does the author also say that the poorest Americans are the fattest? And where is the evidence that the poor in American consume less calories than the better-off? Does poverty or associated factors somehow cause the genes to go awry in a matter of a single generation? And why are the poor in ...
    Posted to Green Room by Waschbaer on July 11, 2008

  • Regarding the Wall-E article...

    ''Wall-E tells us that if we don't change the way we live, we'll all get really fat and destroy the world.'' You'll find no bigger supporter of the first amendment than me. However, I think the statement above, quoted from the article is a little biased. To me, it sounds like someone who is just looking for a reason to look down on ...
    Posted to Green Room by CWickham on July 11, 2008
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