Guess What Today Is

Oh, yes it is:

National Donut Day 2015

So here, here's some help:

Where to get free donuts on National Doughnut Day

And while you're munching:

Happy National Doughnut Day! Check out these 

cool stats

You're welcome.

Enjoy your Friday and weekend.

What our corporations---and our food--are doing to us, as a nation

A documentary from last year:



Get that?

"This is the first generation of American children expected to lead shorter lives than their parents."

And this:

"Over 95% of all Americans will be overweight or obese in 2 decades."

And "The government is subsidizing the obesity epidemic."

So you know.

So we know.

And act and react.

Important documentary coming soon

I was just made aware, last evening, of this new, as I said, important documentary that's coming out soon on the American diet and how sugar, especially, is so prevalent and dangerous in our nation and society:



I look forward to it.

McDonald's has sunk to a new very low

I learned this today:

Yes, There Is A McDonald's Menu Item Called The 'McGangBang'

Gastronomically and nutritionally, both, that's bad, even horrible, but THAT name, too?

Seriously?

Missouri, Kansas rankings on annual "KIds Count" survey

Here's where you stand to date, Missouri and Kansas on the things that are important, overall, for the children of our respective states (click on picture for easier reading):

Missouri, number 27, overall and Kansas 16.

We have work to do, folks.  It's for our children.

There is a TON of great, hard data here, too. Here's a Yahoo! News article on it, with links:

Best—and worst—states to be a kid

Here's a link to the actual organization that compiles the data:

Kids Count

and this:

KIDS COUNT - Annie E. Casey Foundation

And their Facebook page, since I'm kind of supporting them here:

KIDS COUNT | Facebook

Finally, information on the group as to who they are and what they do:

Annie E. Casey Foundation - Wikipedia

Really, does this make sense?

I've wondered this myself many times.

Why does a salad, for pity's sake--a small salad--cost more than a hamburger?

Of course, we know the answer.

The answer is that this is "free-market Capitalism" so companies charge whatever they wish on whatever they choose.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating or suggesting we should have laws making this illegal, far from it.

What I'm saying is that businesses and business people should have morals and practice them in their businesses.

It's not going to happen, not in America but there you are.

Way to go, McDonald's.

Just know, we're not "Lovin' it."

Link: Americans unaware of most obesity risks

Another reason America is fat

Pringles.

Yep.

No, not just the fact that we have them but, for one, the fact that we have this one more snack---among a long, long list of snacks--that we also happen to eat between our too-large, fat-laden meals.

Here's what I found last evening on these things.

Pringles at Wal-Mart--the regular ones--are $1.50 per can.

No big deal, right?

Far less expensive than regular potato chip bags, I have to point out.

But the low-fat Pringles?

They're a whopping $2.58 per can.

And get this.

The can is smaller, to boot.

I ask you, who's going to buy those?

Who's going to purchase the low-fat can of Pringles, in an effort to either lose weight or keep it off?

It just doesn't make sense.

Some simple solutions

There is an article in The New York Times today, pointing out that the people of a small town in Italy--Lecco, to be specific--have decided to fight obesity in their children, along with automobile traffic and global warming (I would add pollution) by having their children walk to school.

Now, mind you, it's not a solution most American communities could easily adopt but it proves a different point to me.

It reinforces what I said here, some time ago, about our oil/Middle East/Middle East war/pollution/climate change problems, all with one really big push.

That is, if we switch as quickly as possible to solar electricity for our homes, businesses and cars, we could do the following:

1) Get out of the Middle East

2) Stop polluting our country and the world

3) Reduce climate change and global warming and the resultant ill effects those cause

4) Stop the transfer of wealth from us and our country to the Middle East

5) Add stability to the world's socio-economic structure

6) Add stability to the world's political structures

That's a lot right there.

It's what we need to do.

It won't be easy--or cheap--but it's rather simple.

And obvious.

Link to article in NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/world/europe/27bus.html?ref=world