The local news did a story on the 8 foods to never eat.....& then listed 7. Oh, well, what the heck, who's counting? Maybe whoever made the list died of food poisoning before he could finish it.

This crowd will be pleased to see that chocolate cake didn't make the list, & neither, I note, did any Italian dishes.

The foods that made the list did so coz of either high sugar or fat content or too many calories, or any combination of these. Here they are:

* Campbell's Condensed Soups

* Burger King French Fries

* Haagen Dazs Mint Chip Dazzler

* Pepperidge Farm Flaky Crust Chicken Pot Pie

* Hershey's Swoops

* Starbuck's Creme Frappuncino drinks

* Milk and Cereal Bars

Ohhhh wow!

That's what I had for dinner tonite...
... all of the above!

I've never eaten ANY of those things on the list.... and yet....

Oh well... it wasn't my diet afterall!

FOR SALE NOW - CHEAP !!!

6 cans of Campbell's Condensed Soups

2 Gal. of Haagen Dazs Mint Chip Dazzler

8 Pepperidge Farm Flaky Crust Chicken Pot Pies

3 bags Hershey's Swoops

1 Gal. of whole Milk

12 Cereal Bars

Got to go for now - my stomach is hurtin' - gettin' worst - got to call 911 - <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/sickpuke.gif" width=15 height=15> THANKS Joe !!!!!!!

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1 Gal. of whole Milk

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You all crack me up...I thought some folks would find this interesting.

But they didn't mean that you shouldn't drink milk; they meant not to eat those milk-and-cereal bars that I've seen in stores lately.

I grew up when milk was good for you & my mom threw away sour milk. Now milk is bad for you & sour milk is turned into yogurt & everybody (but me) is crazy about yogurt.

Is it only Swoops Joe?........... I grew up on Hershey's in Oregon and always craved it (along with Reese's PB Cups)when I moved to OZ. I search out little candy stores that import it. They used to sell it in a supermarket here, but everyone here grew up on Cadbury's (not a patch on Hersheys)and it didn't do so well so they pulled it.
I can get Oreo's here now too. Of course I eat these things in moderation...........

Oh for a pack of Crackerjacks!!!!!!!!!!!
I want a packet with a ring in it so when Tiffany's opens here later this year John and I can go in and get it ingraved!
Bo, I was 9 when I left the states but those jingles are still seared in my brain.

Mmmmmmmmmm Good,
Mmmmmmmmmm Good.........

Little girls have pretty curls but I like Oreo's
Oreo's my choice because
it's the very best cookie ever was
Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do
And I like Oreo's.........

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Is it only Swoops Joe?
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Yeah, for the reason that they contain a "saturated palm oil," whatever the hell that is. Other Hershey's products are OK....or at least as OK as any other chocolate.

BTW, somebody who saw the same newscast told me that bad food #8 is Bugles.

you mean bugles dipped into Campbells Cream of Onion Soup is BAD for me??????


go figger...

I think they were gunna put Yodels on the list, but they knew they would hafta answer to Sherry! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

NEVER EAT ANYTHING WITH PALM OIL IN IT!!!!!!!
Read the label.
Oh for a Tootsie Roll
Candy Corn
Butterfinger
Oregon Saltwater Taffy!!!!!!!!!!

I bet they don't have those over there. I'd love to have some of those again. It's been so long since I had any of those...

Oh go ahead...eat them... Not too much of them, but go ahead!!!

I don't always like what David Brooks writes ... but today's column in the NYTimes has me smiling...

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April 24, 2005
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Living Longer Is the Best Revenge
By DAVID BROOKS

The release of a report in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicating that overweight people actually live longer than normal-weight people represents an important moment in the history of world civilization. It is the moment when we realize that Mother Nature - unlike Ivy League admissions committees - doesn't like suck-ups.

It turns out she doesn't like those body-worshiping, multi-abbed marvels who've spent so much time at the bench press machine they look as if they have thighs growing out of either side of their necks. She doesn't like those health-conscious rice cake addicts you see at Manhattan restaurants ordering a skinned olive for lunch and sitting there looking trim and fit in their tapered blouses while their buns of steel leave permanent dents in the upholstery.

Mother Nature, we now know, is a saucy wench, who likes to play cosmic tricks on humanity. If the report from researchers at the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is correct - and it is the most thorough done to date - then it seems that Mother Nature has built a little Laffer curve into the fabric of reality: health-conscious people can hit a point of negative returns, so the more fit they are, the quicker they kick the bucket. People who work out, eat responsibly and deserve to live are more likely to be culled by the Thin Reaper.

I can't tell you how happy this makes me. Since I read about this report a few days ago, I haven't been able to stop grinning.

I've been happy because as a member of the community of low-center-of-gravity Americans, I find that a lifetime of irresponsible behavior has been unjustly rewarded. If this study is correct, I'll be ordering second helpings on into my 90's while all those salad-munching health nuts who have been feeling so superior in their spandex pants and cutoff T-shirts will be dying of midriff pneumonia and other condescension-related diseases.

I've been happy because now there will inevitably be a shift in the fashion winds, favoring members of the Zaftig Corps. Sports enjoyed by people with Rubenesque proportions, like floating, will come into vogue. More people will appreciate the thigh-rubbing musical rhythms you hear when overweight people wear corduroys. More people will realize we should all be patterning our lifestyle decisions on those made by Christopher Hitchens.

Mostly, I'm happy on an existential level. I like to be reminded that the universe is basically crooked. This is what the zero-tolerance brigades and all the better living gurus never quite get. They're busy trying to mold everybody into lifelong valedictorians, who spend their adulthood as carb counters and responsible flossers - the sort of organized folk who actually read legal documents before they sign them.

In reality, life is perverse and human beings don't get what they deserve. The people with the worst grades start the most successful businesses. The shallowest people end up blissfully happy and they are so vapid they don't even realize how vapid they are because vapidity is the only trait that comes with its own impermeable obliviousness system. The people regarded as lightweights, like F.D.R., J.F.K. and Ronald Reagan, make the best presidents, while you - so much more thoughtful and better read - would be a complete disaster.

Life isn't fair, logic is of limited value and, as Woody Allen observed years ago, everything your parents once thought was good for you turns out to be bad for you: sun, milk, red meat and college.

The chief moral lesson I take away from this report is that Mother Nature is happy to tolerate marginally irresponsible misbehavior. She doesn't want you to go completely to seed. If you're truly obese and arouse hippos when you visit the zoo, you could still punch your ticket at any moment.

But she does want you to eat the occasional Cinnabon, so long as it isn't bigger than Delaware. She wants you to have that fourth glass of wine, and lecture the dinner table on the future of the papacy based on your extensive reading of "The Da Vinci Code." She wants a little socially productive mediocrity.

Darwin was wrong when he talked about the survival of the fittest: it's really the survival of the healthy enough to get by. As it says in the Good Book, the last shall sometimes be first, the meek shall inherit the earth, and the chubby will get extra biscuits at the breakfast buffet.

E-mail: dabrooks@nytimes.com
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Great article! Thanks for posting that, Wyld One!

Ummm.....I feel like I am being talked about.

Thanks, Wyld!

I sure hope overweight people live longer. The I can reach my goal of living to be 100 Lord willing...