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re: Senate takes aim at childhood obesity

Rod Proudfoot — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:20:06 GMT

Recognition is the first start to better things. There are a number of initiatives that the government can do, but how about first paving the way to allow for public and private insurers and benefit providers to be able to insure obesity prevention programs (and not just drugs). The number of children from low income families who are more affected by overweight and obesity is proportionately much greater than higher income families. This low income sector of our society however will not participate in any worthwhile preventative program unless it is insurable. Let's start with the government passing legislation (immediately) to allow insuring of preventable lifestyle solution programs so our doctors and insurers can recommend and direct to those children in need. In the issue of childhood obesity, a dollar spent on an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of dollars we are going to have spend on cures. The cost of obesity on our medical system has been pegged at $99 billion a year...and growing. The cost of doing nothing will be far greater than the cost of acting now. Don't just talk about this issue and then fund more studies, please do something, now!

re: Army shoots live pigs in training drill

Bronx Boy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:33:26 GMT

Save a pig! (Shoot a PETA member instead.)

re: NYC Restaurants Must Post Calories on Menus

Bronx Boy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:29:37 GMT

>>Does NY not realize the rest of the country is laughing at them?

Sadly, most don't. Still, many of us New Yorkers have been fed up with this nanny-state socialist mayor for a long time. He concentrates on idiotic minutia like this, while the city's infrastructure is falling apart. Seems that those who love him the most are the limo libs, most of whom, like him, didn't grow up here, yet insist on invading my city and running it into the ground.

I've lived in NYC my whole life, but not until this clown took office did I ever feel the desire to leave it; and for good.

re: NYC Restaurants Must Post Calories on Menus

David — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:48 GMT

I can't believe NYC customers don't realize that eating a Big Mac isn't a healthy food choice. Are NYC consumers so impressionable that they can be "guilt-tripped" into eating better? Does NY not realize the rest of the country is laughing at them?

re: Rock the Vote: Still relevant after all these years?

TattMan — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:19:26 GMT

CarTatts (www.cartatts.com) is helping Rock the Vote by selling licensed RTV logos, with a portion of proceeds going to the RTV organization. People can also register right at CarTatts.com. It's a worthy cause -- it's great to get young people involved and excited about he process.

re: Army shoots live pigs in training drill

Jennifer K — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:48:34 GMT

I think it'd be more traumatic to be the ones shooting the pigs than treating the wounds.

re: NYC Restaurants Must Post Calories on Menus

stevenm — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:45:37 GMT

i think it's a great thing, despite the nanny feel of it all. i like knowing what the healthy options are on the menu. and i've learned the hard way that what looks healthy (like a salad) can be many hundreds of calories because of all the other stuff they put in it to "enhance taste." i hope all restaurants begin doing this or are required to, just in the spirit of "full disclosure."

re: NYC Restaurants Must Post Calories on Menus

Pete — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:52:08 GMT

The only thing the new law does if bring Americans one step closer to living in a totally fascist country.

re: Greening the Gov: Is teleworking worth the effort?

Sheryle Moon — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:08:42 GMT

Thanks for your thoughts, Andrew. Teleworking is most definitely worth the effort! Remember that song: "My baby takes the morning train. He works from 9 to 5 and then he takes the train back home again…” Thank goodness work isn’t like that anymore! Work is not a place. It’s not time bound. It is all about mobility and connectedness, anywhere on the globe. I’m a big advocate of teleworking as a new business model for sustainability and economic productivitiy. The use of flexible working arrangements and telecommuting provide opportunities for increasing participation of women in the workforce, governments growing productivity and communities reducing their carbon footprint as fewer cars hit the road and large buildings burn lights and air conditioning plants. Telework Australia says that having a workforce that works at least partly at home can reduce costs of heating, air-conditioning, car parks and lighting by 17 per cent of salary costs. And telework reduces avoidable staff turnover by over 20 percent, while managers report that employees are up to 40 percent more productive.

re: More DoD contracting woes

Jarvis — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:48:50 GMT

Take a look at http://www.dodig.osd.mil/audit/reports/fy04/04-111.pdf. There have been problems at this place fo years. Black Night, not sure why you need to call names. "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." Martin Luther King Jr