As has been noted here before, on the weekends we like to surf Blog Explosion in order to find new and different blogs and to get an idea what those on the other side, or even better, on no side of the political spectrum, are writing about. Today we found a new blog. Well, it isn't really all that new as their archives indicate they've been around at least a year, but new to us, nonetheless. We haven't had time to read through some of the older posts, but what we've read so far made us laugh out loud and that's the criteria we look for when surfing to pass the time.
Shaking accepted nutritional orthodoxy to its very foundations, it was reported this week in the journal Pediatrics that if you consume fewer calories, you can lose weight.
You read that right. When you cut back on your caloric intake, a strange and as yet unidentified process takes place (perhaps magical in nature) in which weight can in fact be “lost.”
Heralded as a possible breakthrough in the battle against childhood obesity, a study conducted through the Children’s Hospital in Boston arranged to have diet drinks delivered right to participant’s doorsteps. The volunteers were then asked to drink the free diet beverages rather than go out and buy sugar-laden ones during the 25-week period of the trial.
"The study illustrates that if you make alternatives available to kids they will drink them," observed Dr. David Ludwig, one of the authors of the study. And by “make alternatives available” he means, “promise them a $100 gift certificate at the local mall, too.” (This sheds new light on the Jack Abramoff scandal suggesting that his donations to Congressmen could be viewed as not so much “bribes” as merely clinically based “incentives” to encourage behavioral changes more in concert with a healthy lifestyle one facet of which is approving Indian casino licenses
Go check them out at Planet Moron. You gotta love the name, if nothing else.
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