Mexico pushes national campaign to lose weight (Holy Guacamole, BatMan!)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/28/08 | Jaime A. Zea - ap

[NormsRevenge]

MEXICO CITY - Abraham Leon was getting a checkup when he found out he had high blood pressure and was at risk of developing diabetes.

On the spot, the 5-foot-6-inch, 240-pound lab researcher joined "Vamos Por Un Million de Kilos" (Let's Lose a Million Kilos), a national campaign to get Mexicans to collectively trim about 2 million pounds.

[holyscroller]

I think they currently lose weight by shipping their citizens North, one sweaty body at a time.

[TADSLOS]

Treks across the Sonoran Desert will slim them down.

[Battle Axe]

In order to do that they have to give up corn tortillas. Probably won’t happen.

Corn is fed to cattle to fatten them up.

Based on the blood type diet of Dr. Peter D”Adamo.

[Perdogg]

I have noticed on the labels it says that corn chips have no sugar.

[CE2949BB]

America could lose 3,600,000,000 pounds (assuming 15,000,000 illegal Mexican immigrants @ 240 lbs per) overnight if she got serious.

[Jeff Chandler]

The secret to truly flavorful Mexican food is lard. It makes frijoles taste good, it makes flour tortillas stretchy, it makes tamales tender.

Manteca.

[max americana]

So instead of thinking of ways to create jobs for their economy and not shipping their uneducated, illegals to this country, losing weight is a priority?

[Cyman]

Killing corrupt police and army officers does not count toward that goal.

[R. Scott]

A thin mamacita?

[Secret Agent Man]

Coincidentally, this also was the very same day the drug lords began their “Let’s Smuggle a Million Kilos” campaign, to increase trafficking of cocaine and marijuana into the US.

[kingu]

Wow, how incredibly brave of the government to set this goal. I’m sure the many bitterly poor people in the nation who haven’t yet hopped the border to the United States are sitting there, waiting for the day when their food can be transfat free, assuming they get any food.