Mad Cow Disease
Mad cow disease is now found to have the ability to lay dormant in the human body for sixty years or more.
Researchers have been studying ex-cannibals who are now suffering from Kuru, which they say is similar to mad cow, they are both caused by what is called a prion.
The fear is that an epidemic may explode many decades from now. Most of the cows that were infected were consumed in the 90’s, while we were unaware of the danger.
Just another on our list of time bombs waiting for us in the future!
Medical Privacy Laws
There have been over 19,000 complaints of violations of the Medical Privacy Law since it’s enactment a couple years ago. The punishment is a fine and/or jail time. Of these 19,000 only two (2) have been fined and/or jailed.
Of course! The administration likes that we are losing more and more privacy. They certainly don’t want to discourage people who have access to our private medical records from being lax in protecting them.
Their excuse is that they want to just give warnings first and make the offenders promise not to do it again! What? Are we all just two years old again?
Strict Parents/Fat Kids
A study has been conducted that says parents who are strict are likely to have fat kids. They say this may be due to the fact that strict parents are putting more pressure on their kids so the kids are eating as a reaction to the extra stress.
It makes me wonder how this relates to the theory about girls with anorexia. It seems that in their cases they choose not to eat because they have a controlling parent or parents. They said that these kids are exercising the only control they feel they have over themselves and their bodies.
Can both be right?
My first reaction is that the first study I cited is in error, however I have discovered over the years that different people will react differently. In fact even the same person will or might react differently in different situations. For example, my daughter had to go to the youth home a couple times for skipping school and trespassing. The first time she was gone I was so depressed I stopped eating and lost a good deal of weight. I was actually almost to my desirable weight. She came home and I was doing good. A couple more pounds and I would have fit into my perfect weight jeans. Then she got in trouble again. This time I was so depressed I began eating. Everything. I gained all my weight back and so much more.
My conclusion? These studies are a waste of time and money. Every person is different and will react differently given the situation.
I can tell you what I believe makes kids fat;
- They watch how a fat parent eats all their lives
- The parent uses food to comfort the child
- The parent keeps a lot of junk food in the house
- The parent over serves food at mealtimes
- The parent serves a lot of fatty fried foods and fast foods
- The parent supplies money so the kid can buy fast food outside
Now can I have the money that was used to fund the above study?
More Government Interference
The FDA is going to be asking restaurants to decrease portion sizes, offer healthier foods, and limiting the amount of different foods that are combined in a recipe.
They are doing this because we Americans are getting too fat and they want to stop this and make us all thin and healthy.
Nothing was said about decreasing the prices for these foods as well as the portions.
I don’t know about you but I thought I lived in a free country. Free to be fat if I so choose. Free to order a Big Mac not a Mini Mac. Free to order a meal at a restaurant and eat however much of the meal I want and free to take home a dogie bag if I choose not to finish.
It’s well and fine for them to make recommendations, but to limit our choices because they think we should not make our own decisions.
People better start waking up before we become a country full of government slaves.
I will decide how much I will weigh.
I will decide where I eat.
I will decide how much I eat.
I will decide what I eat.
I am on a diet now because I want to be thin and healthy, but the point is, it’s my choice to do that. It’s about freedom and choice, things that are slowly being taken away from us. What’s it going to be next week? Limiting our choice of underwear?
WAKE UP AMERICA OR INSTEAD OF BEING THE LAND OF BASEBALL AND APPLE PIE WE WILL BE THE LAND OF T BALL AND TOFU !