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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,...