Food for thought: Eating should be pleasurable

Orlando Sentinel ^ | July 16, 2003 | Kathleen Parker

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COMMENTARY: KATHLEEN PARKER

Food for thought: Eating should be pleasurable Kathleen Parker

July 16, 2003

Acareful reading of the day's headlines reveals this poetic tension: God and America's tort lawyers are on opposite sides of the war on fat.

Playing his parenting role as surely he intended it, God is inspiring people such as Lucille Johnson of Denver to take personal responsibility for her actions. Johnson is one of 150,000 overweight Coloradoans who have joined the "America on the Move" program, vowing to walk 2,000 extra steps per day and to eat 100 fewer calories.

Although the program isn't church-affiliated, Johnson is director of health programs for the Metro Denver Black Church Initiative and has taken her weight-loss message to the pulpit. She has distributed 1,600 pedometers to oversized parishioners in 32 Denver churches, according to an Associated Press story.

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For those of you who've not yet had the intellectual pleasure of reading Kathleen Parker (syndicated common sense commentator), please allow this ol' "Desert Rat" (from the High Desert of Southern Cal') to enlighten you.

She's fantastic and well worth your time and consideration! Lots and lots of common sense--for BOTH conservatives and liberals alike...though, I do realize that "gray matter" is less prevalent in the minds of those on the other side of the political spectrum who are more "in the know" about just who's left at "Paradise Hotel," who's the next "American Junior" and when Johnny Cochran plans to step in and represent Kobe Bryant--and get another law-breaker off the hook as he seemed to accomplish way back when ("Please pass me another glass of 'O.J.,' if you don't mind"--sorry, I couldn't pass that one up, being far enough from L.A., but close enough to keep tabs on the "City of the Angels"--Yeah, right!).

Ms. Parker's commentary has more to do with common sense, common decency and good ol'-fashioned INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY than anything else. Oops! Sorry if I offended anyone by inferring that most, if not all, of what happens to people is based either on smart or stupid decisions to begin with--like whom to associate with, what food to eat, when to bring along an umbrella, and other not-so-common-sensical precautions that my dear mother and father taught us while growing up in the sixties and seventies.

Remember, even a dead fish can "go with the flow;" it takes and LIVE fish--full of passion and commitment--to go against the flow!

Enjoy the commentary by Kathleen Parker,

"High Desert Rick"

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Other research suggests that combining certain foods to increase a product's "palatability" creates an "opioid effect," so that people want to eat more. Allow me to translate: By combining sugar, fat and protein in certain ways, food vendors are purposely trying to make their products taste so good that you'll eat them.

Scandalous.

The nerve of some people!