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  The "group of researchers" may constitute Michelle and her kids for all we know. (I wonder why she is even mentioned here? Someone making brownie points?) And although I have recognized that college sophomores and white rats score virtually identically on maze tests, I have no intention of relying on the rats to predict, nor explain any rational human behaviour. This kind of article, purporting to be "scientifically" based should be relegated to the Sunday newspaper fillers. I will point out that at one time tobacco was simply a mild drug that anyone should be able to avoid using continually. The manufacturers killed that off by adding chemicals to keep users hooked. (Oh, yeah, our government came to the "rescue" by spending billions of our dollars when all that would have been needed was to prevent that from happening.) Now, the same sort of thing has happened to our foods. The conglomerate food processors have given us smaller and thinner shelled eggs (your grandmother would have looked at one of graded "large" eggs and sniffed. And she would have been correct to say "that's a small egg". But that downsizing isn't all. Now the giant "farmers" are giving us irradiated foods and hybrids that carry only a part of the nutrition we really need to sustain ourselves. So we eat more, the clothing manufacturers are happy (at least those in China) the "government" and "special interest" groups are avoiding the logical step of testing this garbage we are being sold as nutritious and we grow obese. Want something to think about? Diabetes was, a few years ago, an affliction that was minimally taking its toll. Today, there is a subculture of millions of people suffering and dying because of its sudden growth. Sugar seems to have taken the upper hand in this, but as it reacts in different ways depending on with what it is mixed we can't say it is the cause of diabetes. There are no known studies underway about this problem. For those interested in a bit more chemistry, the food you give your dogs and cats from those cans and bags is primarily chemically manufactured. As we are aware, cats and dogs are carnivores. (They are not herbivores nor omnivores.) That title alone tells us that their bodies are designed (and function best) when they have meat to eat. Giving them chemically altered vegetables and fruits is not what Mom Nature planned for them. Think about what we are doing to our defenseless pets.On Scientists claim junk food is as addictive as heroin posted 5 days, 11 hours ago 18 Responses

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  "Remember, the government got into the game in the first place for lack of healthy bodies to fight wars." Now where did you find this out? Mysteries, mysteries, mysteries. Or perhaps that is just another opinion? My personal belief is that schools should get their act together as a single unit. They need to fire some of the dead weight administrators and become a body responsible to parents and non-parents alike. Where is it written that education availability is a special area that can be abused by students and parents alike? When did we decide that childless homes should pick up the bill for our breeders kids? When did Administration grow so large that their salaries, in toto, would outstrip what we pay teachers in these schools? Americans (and others) today want the best as long as someone else pays for it. Maybe it is time to "change" the way it is operated today. After all, "if it is IS broke, fix it".On Is privatization the answer to the school lunch mess? posted 1 month ago 13 Responses

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  Having read and researched the Van Jones mistake, I find this article stating Van Jones to be a victim of character assassination, but a "victim" of his own actions, including his own personal beliefs, to be a fiction of imagination. He is no hero, but rather a bigoted and elitist man.

  President Obama did well in accepting his resignation.

  On On eve of Senate showdown and COP15, the climate movement locks in posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago 2 Responses

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  Um Abdullah, in her hot clothing, with no education and a state that enforces hatred against another state, is pushing it uphill.

  This article, really a push piece for Mrs. Obama, fails to point out that she was (and may still be) ignorant of how things grow. It fails to point out that her "garden" was a flacks idea to make her look good to the American public. It doesn't tell us how much taxpayer money she spent getting the disasterous "garden" to grow, nor who had to be hired and how much that cost, to fix her screw up. I am sure she is a personable woman and wants to promote her husband in any way she can. That isn't a fault, considering how many men and women do NOT support their spouses today.

  But the article is full of writing that only seems to exist to let us know how wonderful Obama is, how evil the Israeli defenders of their homeland are and how much nicer it would be if we helped this country's Arab detractors destroy it.

   Please, Grist, play fair as you did when I first found you years ago. Back the true issues and don't try to cover up intent with puff pieces.

  Just sayin'

  On Growing hope and fighting hunger on the Gaza Strip posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago 2 Responses

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  Liked your phrasing.

  But if our schools do not teach nor (apparently), do not open their pupil's eyes (no pun intended) to the great men who created this country and served her, then what hope have we for these same teacher's explaining a rather obscure guy who lived in the woods a couple hundred years ago?

  It's a shame, but there's that ugly ole reality showing up again.

  On Thoreau, Walden and civil disobedience in the age of climate change posted 2 months, 1 week ago 10 Responses