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To: Question Liberal Authority
What about the people who maintain a “healthy” weight through the use of cigarettes or heroin?

HUH????????

17 posted on 01/08/2009 10:57:10 AM PST by Gabz (Happy New Year)
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To: Gabz

Smokers tend to weigh less than non-smokers, and heroin addicts tend to weigh less than everyone. If the only standard here is “lack of obesity”, then those groups would be considered “healthier” than the pleasantly plump.

How does anyone (especially a government) determine that a food is really “healthy”? Spinach is “healthy”, but if you were locked in a room with nothing but spinach, you’d be dead within a month. Pizza is “junk”, but you could eat nothing but pizza every day of your life and live to be 100.


18 posted on 01/08/2009 12:08:24 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority (My Success Is Not Determined By Who Wins Elections)
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