a theory.

so there's been a lot of news recently about obesity. and a lot of hysteria about it. so i started thinking, why, all of a sudden, are people getting fat? i mean, from everything i've ever heard, they ate plenty of white bread and other refined carbs in the 50s. and they had desk jobs and cars and labor-saving devices and tv. is it really the portion size creep?

and then i noticed the nutrition facts label on my breakfast cereal. because it claims it's high protein, it needs to include the government's recommended daily allowance for protein on its label, which is something, btw, most products don't need to include. imagine my shock when i see that our government actually recommends that out of 2000 calories a day, 65g of them be fat, but only 50g be protein. now, i'm not into the whole low-carb atkins thing, and neither am i into treating every morsel of food as if it's part of a detailed chemical formula for longer life, but i think at some point, logic ought to take over.