Rush Out And Get This Now

I wish I could say I have winning lottery tickets, the keys to a new
car, or that I’m giving away my ticket to Oprah’s show in Australia.
I could tell you I have tickets to see Tampa’s Rays in the playoffs,
but nobody seems to want those, even if the Rays win. (There’s
something in the water on that side of the state.)

No…what I have to tell you is really important. (I think.)

While watching the news during my lunch, I saw that Snooki has a
novel coming out.

Yeh…that Snooki Polizzi…from the Jersey Shore. The name of her
novel is: “The Shore Thing.”

Calling Snooki a novelist is sure to make Norman Mailer come back
from the dead and write a half dozen more books. And you could be
sure that every paragraph would outclass Snooki, who really doesn’t
even know how to dress herself yet, in her mid twenties. She does
know how to get arrested, open a beer can and do shots, but as more
kids age, that skill set diminishes pretty fast, even on the Jersey
Shore.

But what you really need is a signed First Edition, because at some
point, that book will be rarer than a woman in Los Angeles that
hasn’t done Botox. I can just see, years from now, hopefully long
after I’m gone, someone bringing one of those signed First Editions
into “Antiques Roadshow” and the the pony tailed geek, with the
horned rim glasses will say, “Do you have any idea what that’s
worth?”

And the 250 pound heifer, with a striped shirt, will gush, “No…I
got it at a yard sale, for a quarter.”

Then, the pony tailed geek says, “We haven’t seen a copy of that in
decades and…I’ve conferred with my colleagues…and we think, at
auction, it could conservatively go at….$125,000.00!”

The fat woman faints…and then wakes up to find out it was only a
dream and that the book wasn’t any good, anyway.

She could have spent her money on something with some real value,
like my Powerhouse Omega Formula:

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But she wasted it on Snooki’s book about …whatever it was about.
But had she spent the money on my pharmaceutical grade fish oil, she
would have had the smarts to know to leave that piece of junk on the
stack, where it belongs. That’s because my formula helps connect all
the important parts of your brain, like the one that screams “NO!”
when you entertain the thought of buying such a worthless bit of
trash.

Snooki is a “novelist.”

The next thing you know, someone will be telling us that our taxes
have not gone up under President Obama. (He actually told a suburban
audience that today.) I guess he forgot to use the word “yet.”

Because in a hundred days or so, they’re going up substantially.

You’d know that, too, if you were taking my Powerhouse Omega
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Obama Goes Back To The Future

It’s been a horrible Summer and early Fall for the President. His
approval rating is his lowest ever and the downward spiral shows no
signs of abating. Bob Woodward’s new book shows ugly infighting at
the White House, between pragmatists and the left wing idealogues
and nut jobs that Obama brought to Washington.

Obama’s number two, Rahm Emmanuel, leader of the pragmatists, will
be gone very shortly, so that he can run for Mayor of Chicago. This
will leave a huge void in the Obama machine, because whatever
moderate influence Emmanuel has been able to exert will be gone,
leaving the leftists in complete charge, with Reid and Pelosi to run
ramshackle on the field.

David Axelrod will leave shortly, to crank up Campaign 2012, if
Campaign 2008 ever ends. David Plouffe is coming to plan strategy,
but cleaning up your own mess is different from blaming it on
someone else.

The President is out on the campaign trail, complaining about the
lack of enthusiasm for his policies, and calling out college
students for being apathetic in the face of a tsunami against him.
Jumpin JoJo is telling Democrats to “stop whining.” But without
anything of substance on the teleprompter, this is a very hard sell.

So he’s gone back to the future. In a Rolling Stone article, he says
FOX NEWS is destructive to the long term growth of America. He
compares FOX to the old Hearst newspaper empire and says all FOX is
about is the money.

Let’s revisit history for a moment. When FOX NEWS was started 15
years ago, all three networks and CNN tried to crush it. They didn’t
want anybody telling a different story than they were telling and
they tried, at every opportunity, to drive FOX into the ground. With
their allies in the print media, they didn’t miss a chance to bash
FOX.

Today, it’s a completely different story. More people watch FOX than
any other network. In the cable world, if you combine all the other
networks, they don’t reach half as many people as FOX. In terms of
where people get their news, and whom they trust, it’s FOX again.

The reason is simple. FOX coverage has been fair, while network
coverage and other cable coverage, has been highly slanted. NBC and
CNBC might as well have put on Obama cheerleading outfits. MSNBC’s
reporters are such zealous Obama supporters that they should abandon
the word reporter, and change it to “slobbering supporter.” At CBS,
the perky Katie Couric is a Democratic Party operative.

The problem for the President is that people have figured out what
he is really all about and it ain’t hope and change. He is
completely out of step with the country and his vision is beyond
flawed. Criticizing all his opponents won’t help and criticizing his
own people will only dig the hole deeper.

Being President of the United States is a bit different than being
a community rabble rouser. It’s different than voting “Present” in
the Illinois State Senate and the U.S. Senate. It is more than
standing in front of adoring crowds, preaching to the chorus from
prepared speeches that lacked any substance, whatsoever.

Being President means that somewhere along the line, the wheat gets
separated from the chaff.

The problem for the President…is that most people now realize he
isn’t much of a baker. He may have all of the ingredients he needs,
but he isn’t very good at putting them together. His cakes are dry,
his cookies are too hard and his bread doesn’t rise.

You can talk about the other bakery all day long, but that won’t get
people back to yours.

Speaking of real baked goods, you can compensate for a lot of their
saturated fats with a couple of extra softgels of my Powerhouse
Omega Formula. That’s what I do, when I have a yen for some tasty
pastries, as the occasional off-program treat. It won’t stop the
extra calories, but it will help to balance your blood lipids. As
long as it’s just occasional, you CAN have your cake and eat it,
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

For Vitamins Drink The Juice/For Regularity Eat The Fruit

You may have guessed I’m talking about…prunes, something forced on
me as a child, which I refused to touch for over 30 years, because
of the negative waves associated with them.

The back story is this: Sometime during my grade school years, we
switched from “bring your own lunch,” to having a spanking new
cafeteria, where fat ladies in white uniforms and hair nets cooked
us “hot food.” No one I knew was suffering with the brown bag, or
lunchbox. I guess this was one of those things done in the name of
progress and bragging rights.

The problem was that these “fat broads” couldn’t cook a lick. Their
hamburgers had more in common with Michelin tires than stars. Many
of us continued to bring stuff from home, as the food produced and
served became UFO’s and often landed on shirts and sweaters, ala
Animal House. One of the most despised items on the menu was called
“prune whip,” a sort of stiff concoction of prunes and some other
substance that could be piped out of a tube.

In a word, it was revolting and as I mentioned before, it was three
decades before a prune crossed these lips again. When that happened,
I was old enough to realize that prunes were just like raisins, only
bigger.

That isn’t exactly glamorous, but you can’t find a healthier food.
You also know prunes have a marketing problem, when you see signs
that say “dried plums.”

If you visit your local drugstore, you will notice that entire
aisles are reserved for relieving constipation, which affects
millions of people and can be a serious health problem, if you don’t
get it resolved.

You really don’t need any of the OTC stuff to get yourself regular.
Eating a few prunes, every day, or drinking a small amount of prune
juice daily, will do the trick better than any pharmaceutical.

Prunes contain not just one, but three ingredients, that work
together to keep your digestive system on track. For starters,
prunes are high in insoluble fiber, which is perhaps the key to
preventing constipation. Insoluble fiber isn’t absorbed by the body.
It stays in the digestive tract, where it absorbs large amounts of
water, increasing bulk, which helps everything go smoothly.

Prunes also contain soluble fiber, the type that lowers cholesterol
and the risk of heart disease.

Lastly, prunes contain a compound called dihydroxyphenlisatin (try
wrapping your tongue around that a few times) which stimulates the
intestine, causing it to contract. This process is essential for
regularity.

If you’re eating prunes for regularity, about 5 a day is all you
need. If you would rather drink prune juice, six ounces is all you
need. This is a whole lot cheaper than taking OTC, or even
prescription drugs, for a simple problem with a natural solution.

Meanwhile, remember to take my Powerhouse Omega Formula, a
pharmaceutical grade fish oil with an enteric coating, which
eliminates “fish burps.” Two softgels in the morning, two in the
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

P.S. When I was a senior in high school, their was a cafeteria
revolt at my grade school. It seems that a number of 8th grade boys
filled the cafeteria supervisor’s car with “prune whip.” From what
I hear, it never made another appearance on the school menu.

Do You Remember What Pelosi Said

That question is fairly broad, but the answer to it is tacked up on
my bulletin board. The soon-to-be House Minority Leader said, “We
have to pass the bill (Health Care Reform) so that you can find out
what’s in it.”

Let me repeat that: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find
out what’s in it.”

Now, one of the President’s and his chief promoters’ (Reid and
Pelosi) big lies… was that there would be no tax increase on the
middle class. When the Bush tax cuts expire on December 31st, that
will be only the first of the tax increases foisted on the public.

Many new taxes are hiding in the 2,800 page bill, which is of course
why the Democrats didn’t want anybody to read it. The President
said, time and again and again, that the public just had the wrong
perception of what he was trying to do.

Here’s a tax the Democrats didn’t tell anyone about.

Starting in 2013, there will be a 3.8% tax on all income from home
sales and rental property. This could end up costing you quite a bit
of your money and it applies to more than just houses. It is a tax
on “unearned income,” which is any income you receive for which you
are not directly working.

This includes interest you receive on a savings account, dividends
from stocks, rental income from a property you own, social security
income, unemployment checks, child support and income you make from
selling your home.

The Democratic hypocrisy here is breathtaking. Let’s see about
savings accounts…for instance.

The government is basically lending banks money now, at 0% interest.
Banks are paying you 2% on your money (I’m using round figures,
here.) Let’s say you have 100K in a savings account, at 2%. (Oh, I
forgot to tell you that banks can, and are, making substantially
more for lending out your money.) They are also charging extremely
high fees for everything they do. Then…they don’t have to pay the
government anything for lending them large sums of money and, as a
result, they are making truckloads of cash, for which they aren’t
paying anything.

So who gets taxed? You do. You’ll owe the government an additional
3.8% of any money the bank pays you.

If you sell your house for $300K, you automatically qualify as rich,
even though you might be selling one house, to pay for another and
might have the money all of one day. This tax money goes directly to
large pharmaceutical companies and health conglomerates. (Hey…
weren’t these the evil bastards Obama was going to bring down?)

What is going on here is another Democratic scam, or money transfer.
The Democrats are stealing from the middle class, to give money to
the very rich.

How do you beat the system? Stop working, stop taking care of
yourself and let everybody else pick up the tab. That’s the Obama
way. And by the way, there is no guarantee you’ll get the benefits
Obama promised. They’ll have to be reviewed by a bureaucrat, to see
if you’re worthy of care, or you should just die, making everything
simple.

And then, the government will want 55% of whatever you have left.

The late Bill Buckley said he would rather be governed by the first
535 names in any phonebook, rather than by a Democratic Congress…
and he was right.

It’s no wonder the Democrats did this bill in secret. Now, we can
only hope for it’s repeal.

In the mean time, watch what you eat, get some exercise, some
sunshine and take my Powerhouse Omega Formula:

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It just may keep you out of the doctor’s (government’s) office.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Ten Tummy Tightening Tricks Rolled Into One

I’m subscribed to a bunch of health publications and they all have
headlines a bit like the one I am using today: “Ten Tummy Tightening
Tricks.” I added the words “Rolled Into One,” because you have to
start somewhere and it isn’t necessarily in the gym.

In the article “Ten Tummy Tightening Tricks,” you were presented
with ten different exercises by beautiful fitness models, who don’t
have an ounce of flab anywhere near them and that, for you and me,
just isn’t realistic.

I’m in reasonably good shape, after more than a year of eating
differently and getting quite a bit of exercise. But of those ten
exercises presented, I know for sure that I can’t do three of them,
no matter how good they look on the models.

The biggest trick in the weight loss business is changing your
lifestyle, which only about five per cent of people do. You can lose
weight on any diet, but the key isn’t losing it…it’s keeping it
off.

It means you have to make permanent changes in the way you eat.

Here’s one thing I learned that you need to know and follow, to be
successful at keeping weight off. For instance, if bread is your
nemesis, like it was mine, you can’t keep it in the house. That
means you simply don’t buy it and bring it home. If it isn’t there,
you can’t possibly eat it. The same goes for cookies, cake, pastries
and frozen pizza. They’re all bread, of one sort or other. Take a
deep breath at the store, inhale the aroma and leave it on the
shelf, or in the refrigerator case.

That will certainly tighten your tummy in a hurry. Exercise will
help too, but the big trick is always about what you use for fuel.
The better your fuel, the better your results.

This is true of race cars and certainly of athletes. But it works
for everyone else, too.

When you add my Powerhouse Omega Formula to good fuel, you’ll really
start to get results. Over time, many minor aches and pains could
disappear. Your arteries could function better and your mind could
be clearer. Your eyes might just work a bit better. And you may be
able to do all ten of those exercises… some day.

But it all starts with better fuel and a little bit of
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Have You Ever Seen A Square Watermelon

If you’re a waist watcher, or weight watcher, nothing could be
better for you than melons. And certainly no BBQ is really complete,
until somebody has broken out the watermelon.

When I was a kid, watermelon was a real treat. On weekends in the
neighborhood, big farm trucks would arrive, stacked to the top with
watermelons that came from the Carolinas, both North and South. The
South Carolina melons would arrive first, usually at the end of
July, and those from North Carolina would arrive in August.

The South Carolina melons were good and the North Carolina melons
were awesome. I can’t remember what they cost, but they were cheap
and we ate, until our stomachs were ready to bust. We spit seeds at
other and stained many a Tshirt and I think I remember some guys
wearing the empty hulls, as hats. Over the years, I discovered a
number of ways people ate them, with salt, with pepper, with hot
sauce, but as kids we didn’t need a thing, except a big slab.

These days, I like my watermelon cold, sometimes with salt, and I
even use a knife and fork. But every now and then, I get the urge to
just put my face in it and chow down.

I wouldn’t have thought of it, back in my youth, but as it turns
out, melons are top notch health food, containing lots of good
stuff. High on the list is folate, a B vitamin critical to lowering
birth defects and heart disease. Then, there’s potassium, essential
for keeping blood pressure at healthy levels.

And then…they’re low in calories and fat, making them great diet
food.

Melons also provide fiber and most people don’t get enough fiber in
their daily diet. When your body is low in fiber, you are at a
higher risk for cancer and other digestive problems. Fiber, in this
case soluble fiber, helps keep the colon healthy, by speeding up the
elimination process.

While watermelon is my personal favorite, the healthiest melon is
the honeydew. Ounce for ounce, honeydew has three times more folate
and two times more potassium than watermelon. The reason is the very
high water content, which dilutes the nutrients in watermelon.

Oh..about those square watermelons. It seems the Japanese have a
monopoly on this. Because watermelons take up a lot of space, the
Japanese actually grow them in a box, which makes them square and
thus, easier to stack in warehouses and stores. (That will never
sell here!)

The next time you have a craving for something sweet, have some
melon instead of cheesecake, or Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, which has
100 calories per ounce. And don’t lie, nobody eats just a sliver of
cheesecake, or Ben and Jerry’s.

If you do succumb to the cheesecake, or Cherry Garcia, take an extra
soft gel of my Powerhouse Omega Formula, which will help move it out
of your system faster:

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Don’t Show This Proposal To Obama

The other day, I said that there was always an answer for the
saying, “Things just can’t get any worse.” In the case of our
present political state, the answer certainly is: Oh yes they can.
(That is the direct opposite of: “Yes we can!”, and we all know what
that has cost us.)

But now the Brits have a proposal that I’m sure Obama will embrace
as deeply as he holds his cheeseburgers, fries, cokes and
cigarettes. The UK tax collection agency has put forth a scheme
whereby all employers would send all paychecks to the government,
after which the government would deduct what it deems as the
appropriate tax and pay the employees what’s left, by bank transfer.

The proposal by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) stresses
the need for employers to provide real time information to the
government, so that it can monitor all payments and make a better
assessment of whether the corect tax is being paid.

If the real time information plan works, it further proposes that
employers hand over employee salaries to the government first.

But there are some serious flaws in the proposal.

No one knows how the government would handle mistakes and the chance
of a high percentage of mistakes is very good, indeed. The British
tax collecters do not have a good record of handling large scale
computer systems and have suffered high profile data losses.

There is also the small factor of cost in implementing such a
system, which would cost in the very high billions of dollars. (Does
any of this sound eerily familiar?) Oh…and then there’s the issue
of “Transparency.”

Old Dead George (Orwell, not King) is probably having a laugh at the
moment, because he predicted these kinds of debacles, long ago. It
won’t be long before Democrats propose this as a radical new idea
that will save billions of taxpayer dollars. (Wait a minute now…
isn’t that what Health Care Reform was supposed to do?)

I suppose that if you refuse to go along with this kind of nonsense,
you’ll need to be “re-educated,” just like HHS Secretary Kathleen
Sebellius wants. I don’t know about you, but I’m sure I’ll get sent
straight to the Hardcore Vegan Warrior Camp. (There really is such
as thing as Hardcore Vegan Warriors.) If you don’t want to adapt to
the “Kind Diet,” they will surround you, until their breath and body
odor overwhelm you.

I’m going to wind up, before I get really carried away, but as you
can see, Orwell had it all down, pretty well.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

SpongeJohn Is The Richest Member Of Congress

In a report published today in a well known magazine, our dear
friend SpongeJohn F. Kerry was listed as the richest member of
Congress, with a net worth of $188 million dollars. And…of the ten
richest members of Congress, eight were Democrats. Isn’t it ironic
that the leaders of wretched refuse yearning to breathe free are
millionaire Democrats.

It’s also why members of Congress have exempted themselves from all
the laws that govern the rest of us.

In the case of the largest debacle in the history of this country
(Obamacare), members of Congress, and their staffs, along with the
Jeffe in Chief and poor old Uncle Joe, have their own special
healthcare program, not governed by the faceless bureaucrats that
will be determining just exactly what you get for the trillions the
government is going to steal from you. Obamacare was good enough for
the peasants, but it wasn’t good enough for Nancy Pelosi, Harry
Reid, Jay Rockefeller, Diane Feinstein, SpongeJohn and company (and
don’t forget Al Franken), who all feel that the care you get isn’t
good enough for themselves.

If the Republicans are smart (and lucky) and take back Congress in a
few weeks, the first law they pass should be one that says Congress
may not, under any circumstances, exempt itself, and its staff, from
any law that they write, and pass.

For instance, did you know that members of Congress are exempt from
“workplace” laws? That they cannot be sued for sexual harassment?

Did you know that they have their own highly lucrative pension plan?
And that it is exempt from Obama’s financial reforms? Did you know
that it is tied to a cost of living increase that pays members more
when they retire than when they served? (This is why California will
go bankrupt.)

Just remember that when you’re sleeping, members of Congress are
attaching riders, mandates, earmarks and everything under the sun to
bills coming to a vote. Since nobody actually reads the bills, you
don’t know that there has been a change in the law until way after
it’s passed.

Obama’s healthcare reform contains hundreds of changes in the law
that no one has figured out yet, but believe me, when it all hits
the fan, there will be no one left unsprayed with the skunk stench.

Meanwhile, SpongeJohn will be skiing in Switzerland, yachting the
East Coast, or jetting off to one of his seven homes around the
world. He won’t be paying any more taxes than you and I, even though
he is a very wealthy man. His lifestyle, including $400 haircuts,
$5,000 suits and eating regularly in Michelen starred joints won’t
change one iota. After dinner, he’ll opine on whatever subject you
want, until you’re sleeping soundly. (Listening to SpongeJohn talk
is better than Ambien.) It all adds up to “Lifestyles of the Rich
and Famous.” Which ain’t bad, considering he has never held a job…
other than Senator. (Remind you of anyone?)

You know, I always said it couldn’t be worse than Kerry winning the
Presidency.

But even I can be wrong, considering our present circumstances.

Since you’re never going to get on the congressional health plan,
you might want to consider the next best thing, which would be
taking my ultra pure, deep water, small fish, pharmaceutical grade
fish oil. By eating better, getting some exercise, some sunshine and
taking my Powerhouse Omega Formula, you can (hopefully) stay out of
the healthcare system altogether:

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

A Very Interesting Study

I did a lot of reading over the weekend, catching up on mail,
medical journals and studies, then even managed to get in a bit of
recreational reading. A lot of that had to do with the fact that
there were no “honeydoo’s” on the eraser board that governs my life.

In one of the health journals, in this case the New England Journal
of Medicine, there was a very interesting study, which examined
prescriptions by doctors, in the state of Massachusetts. The
researchers examined 200,000 prescriptions, written by over 1,200
doctors, over the course of a year. The researchers were trying to
determine the rate at which the doctors’ prescriptions were being
filled.

Another way of looking at this would be the question, “At what rate
were the doctors’ orders being followed?”

Regarding drugs, they found that one quarter to one third of all
prescriptions written were not filled. I found that fairly
astonishing, because that doesn’t account for people who fill the
prescription, but then do not take the prescribed drug. In another
study, it was reported that up to half of all patients do not take
the drugs prescribed by their physicians.

Previously, I have written about the fact that medical schools are
now teaching Alternative Medicine, because over fifty per cent of
the public has used one, or more, alternative options in the last
few years.

I have been urging people to take fish oil for years, but it hasn’t
been until very, very recently that cardiologists began moving in
that same direction. In addition, they have also been telling
patients to use garlic and niacin, with the fish oil, something I
began doing nearly thirty years ago.

The reason for this interest in alternatives can be boiled down
fairly simply.

Drugs, no matter how well they perform, rarely have no side effects.

Alternatives, such as fish oil, CoQ10, garlic and niacin, are almost
side effect free. That’s not to say some folks won’t have a problem,
but the incidence of having the same problems as the drugs, or other
serious side effects…is almost nil.

I’m not anti drug. Drugs have a place in medical therapy and they do
some wondrous things. But we don’t need to be taking nearly as many
drugs as the pharmaceutical companies would have you believe.
Children don’t need to be taking anti cholesterol medication, when
fish oil could easily solve the problem.

Everybody over 45 doesn’t need to be on a statin, when exercise, the
right foods and fish oil would suffice.

When up to fifty per cent of patients aren’t taking the medicine
doctors recommend, somebody isn’t listening.

Doctors need to listen to their patients, before proposing
solutions. Patients need to tell doctors the truth about what
they’re thinking and doing. When a doctor doesn’t have all the
information he or she needs, the outcome is not going to be the best
it could be.

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If you’re in a situation where your doctor won’t listen, switch
doctors. (While you still can, before some faceless government
bureaucrat is in charge of your healthcare.)

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Do We Really Need Fresh Produce At The Liquor Store

One thing about the Obama’s, they sure know how to spend your money.
So far, they have spent a few trillion and when “health care reform”
kicks in, there will be trillions more. The First Lady, fresh from
vacations in Spain, Florida and Martha’s Vineyard, gave a speech the
other day to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Legislative
Conference.

Big Michelle was there to talk about her $4 billion dollar childhood
obesity program, called “Let’s Move.” Now I’ve talked about Big
Michelle’s grandiose plans before, saying that maybe she ought to
get her own house in order, before lecturing the rest of us about
fat. Just for the record, her hubby was photographed in Martha’s
Vineyard eating fried shrimp, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, sausage
sandwiches, french fries and ice cream, washing that down with Coke
and cigarettes. (Yes, he still smokes.)

Big Michelle thinks that grassroots efforts are needed in
communities all across the country, such as planting community
gardens and making fresh produce available, including in liquor
stores. She says this is actually happening in Detroit, a city that
makes New Orleans 9th Ward look like paradise.

Big Michelle says many Detroit residents live at least twice as far
from the nearest grocery store as they do to a fast food restaurant,
or a convenience store.

“And that’s why a group of community leaders and local churches got
together and started what they call “Peaches and Greens” where, five
days a week, they drive a truck, like the “vegetable man”…you all
heard-remember the truck? My parent used to talk about it.”

She rambled on, “They drive a truck through the city, selling fresh,
affordable produce. They’ve set up a small market. They’ve planted a
community garden. They’ve even convinced some of the local liquor
stores to stock stock more fruits and vegetables.”

Now…reread that last line again. This is where Big Michelle’s
credibility gets shattered. I don’t know about you, but I’ve NEVER
seen fresh produce in a liquor store, much less the “more fruits and
vegetables,” unless you’re talking about Bloody Mary Mix, or
Strawberry Dacquiri Mix. No liquor store is going to inventory an
item that will spoil…period.

Big Michelle stated that 40% of African American children are
overweight, or obese, and that 1 of 2 will develop diabetes in their
lifetime. I’m sure that’s factually correct.

But here’s the question. Whose fault is it?

It’s the fault of the parents.

It’s not McDonald’s fault, or Burger King’s fault, or Kentucky Fried
Chicken’s fault.

Do any of these kids ever exercise in school?

No. (Hell…they can’t even play dodgeball, because all the meathead
academics are afraid someone’s ego might get bruised.)

You want to stop childhood obesity?

I have the solution.

You bring in a group of former Marines, and you let them conduct the
school exercise program. When Johnnie goes home and cries, and
brings his mother back to school, you have her drop her fat ass down
and knock out 20 push ups, then run her around the school a few
times. Then she does 20 burpees and if she still has some lip, they
can have her crab walk home.

I guarantee you’d get results with that program, it wouldn’t cost $4
billion dollars and the health benefits would be enormous. And
another thing, while I’m on a roll. To teach in the schools, you’d
have to pass the Marine Fitness Test. Let the teachers union suck on
that.

It all boils down to discipline. It starts at home, not in schools,
and certainly not in liquor stores.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill