Weighty Matters reports they are now working to approve chewable Lipitor (cholesterol medication) for ages 10+ in the European Union. I know several of my students who could probably benefit from this. I remember when quick cholesterol checks first came out. We got one at our local pharmacy. Mine was 180 as a 12 or 13 year old. I would have been a target had this medication been available when I was a child.
Foodbeast reports the trial marketing of the footlong cheeseburger in California by Carls Jr (known to people in my area as Hardees).
Aside from the sheer disgustingness of a footlong cheeseburger, I struggle with the idea of gluttony being so acceptable in America. The bigger, the better. The more, the better. No one even seems to care.
ReplyDeleteI think of how food is taken for granted and used as a crutch - a drug for some - when there are Haitian children scraping the ground and eating rocks to fill the void in their stomachs.
Perhaps if the funds and research on how to make a burger taste so good that Americans crave it were used instead to develop meal packs such as what the Feed My Starving Children organization does, we'd be making a dual difference - in America and overseas.
I must be in your area, cause I definitely know it as Hardees! :)
ReplyDeleteThat said, a footlong cheeseburger is absolutely, unarguably unnecessary. *shakes head*