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America is fat and getting fatter. Today 140 million American adults are overweight or obese. Their bodies carry 4 billion pounds of excess fat, the result of eating 14 trillion excess calories. Numbers of this size belong in the domain of economists, not physicians. And therein lies the solution. Medical and public health attempts to control obesity should continue, but it is time to add marketplace approaches. The first step is realizing that, nationally, weight gain is not a medical problem, it's a pollution problem.

Center Conway, NH.  This failed experiment in modifying human behavior is killing people and it has to stop now. Death certificates from secondary smoke exposure are zero, while death certificates from smoking bans and making a legal product politically incorrect are rising.   Located at The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter at http://www.smokersclubinc.com are two pages proving this: The Ban Damage Page (Deaths, Injuries, Rape, and more) and the Ban Loss Database (Money and business lost due to bans).  Each week new articles are submitted to the Newsletter and the lists get longer.  Since Anti smoking advocates have convinced the media that...

New recruits to the Armed Forces are to be told how to eat healthily after nutrition experts claimed Britain was sending to war men and women who were not able to care for themselves properly. Many new recruits have almost no experience of a proper diet, have rarely sat down to eat as a family, and are more likely to have "grazed" on fast food in front of the television. A consequence of their bad eating habits is that they struggle to cope with the intensive first 12 weeks of training simply because they are not eating the right sort...

(East Providence-AP) -- A billboard sign urging people to go vegetarian that shows the Virgin Mary cradling a chicken carcass is coming down.The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PEE-Tah) paid three-thousand dollars to rent the billboard off Interstate 195 for a month. The sign was put up a week ago.Some religious leaders have complained it's offensive and the sign has been defaced with spray paint.The company that owns the billboard says the sign will be taken down over the next few days and P-E-T-A will get part if its payment back.Robert Murray, co-owner of Massachusetts-based...