"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Wed 19 Jan 2005 07:00:37a, Nancy Young tittered and giggled, and
> giggled
> and tittered, and finally blurted out...

>> It was just a blurb on the news on Good Morning America. No details, I'm
>> sure
>> we'll see more about that in the near future. It's just amusing to me,
>> another
>> example of the sky is falling, wait, no it isn't ... eggs are bad for you
>> ... wait,
>> eggs are good for you. It's as if they can't wait to deliver bad news
>> without
>> enough study of the subject.

> Gotcha, thanks. I always thought the egg thing was funny.

Actually, it goes sorta back to something I've talked about in the past.
People from a certain country down under would troll us about our
weight, and my thing was ... exactly where are (whoever they are)
they (the people who study stuff like that) getting these statistics.
Like ... I don't know how much I weigh, they sure as hell don't.
I actually took to looking around to observe. Didn't seem to me
that 65% of people were obese.

That's why I thought it was funny that they miscalculated
something.

Then there is ... Americans eat 300 pounds of (whatever) a year.
Exactly how do you know this? I would sincerely like to see the
methodology behind this one. Say it's lettuce. I might buy that
much, are they there weighing the lettuce I wind up throwing out?
No. Because I bought a fast food burger and fries, do they know
I split it with the old man or just had a few bites and threw out
the rest? No. It's just a subject that amuses me. That's all.

nancy