With the US' morbid obesity rate you'd be out of debt in no time! Actually there'd be riots in the streets! LOL, that's a good visual actually. Hundreds of thousands of morbidly obese people marching on Washington! HAHAHA.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > I still think the idea has merit though. Mind you I'm skinny. I bet if I > was > > a 300lb+ guy I'd be spazzing out over this. > > (Then when I was done spazzing I'd need a nap.) > > It also occurred to me since my last email that if there was some sort > of "tax index" for foods based on calories and how fatty they are, > this number could also be of value to people who are trying to eat > healthier. I'm sure there are a number of diets out there who already > calculate something like this for foods. This may be part of how > Weight Watchers assigns points to foods for example. > > Effectively though, in addition to being a way to tax all food in a > consistent manner, it would be a great "one go-to metric" for people > to use without having to read labels. > > I'm sure there are a number of flaws that could be uncovered, but not > bad on the surface. > > -Cameron > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291625 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
