Only in America! Fatty Food as Lifestyle Choice
Welcome to the Heart Attack Grill, a Texan restaurant that celebrates cholesterol.

The pick of the menu? The quadruple bybass burger.



Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports on how some people are choosing to buck the politically correct healthy eating trend.

McDonald's Targeted in US Health Ad
THE GUARDIAN: Unhappy meals: American doctors' TV ad features a corpse holding a hamburger and the line 'I was lovin' it'. McDonald's, which has thrived in the recession, isn't laughing



It is an image to sap the flabbiest of appetites. An overweight, middle-aged man lies dead on a mortuary trolley, with a woman weeping over his body. The corpse's cold hand still clutches a half-eaten McDonald's hamburger.

A hard-hitting US television commercial bankrolled by a Washington-based medical group has infuriated McDonald's by taking an unusually direct shot at the world's biggest fast-food chain this week, using a scene filmed in a mortuary followed by a shot of the brand's golden arches logo and a strapline declaring: "I was lovin' it."

The line is a provocative twist on McDonald's long-standing advertising slogan, "I'm lovin' it" and a voiceover intones: "High cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it vegetarian."

The commercial, bankrolled by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), goes further than most non-profit advertising and has drawn an angry reaction from both the Chicago-based hamburger multinational and the broader restaurant industry. >>> Andrew Clark in New York | Tuesday, September 14, 2010

With a Little Help from Your Friends You Can Live Longer
YAHOO! LIFESTYLE UK : Study finds being sociable is good for your health, while loneliness is as bad for you as smoking 15 cigarettes a day

A life of booze, fags and slothfulness may be enough to earn your doctor's disapproval, but there is one last hope: a repeat prescription of mates and good conversation.

A circle of close friends and strong family ties can boost a person's health more than exercise, losing weight or quitting cigarettes and alcohol, psychologists say.

Sociable people seem to reap extra rewards from their relationships by feeling less stressed, taking better care of themselves and having less risky lifestyles than those who are more isolated, they claim.

A review of studies into the impact of relationships on health found that people had a 50% better survival rate if they belonged to a wider social group, be it friends, neighbours, relatives or a mix of these.

The striking impact of social connections on wellbeing has led researchers to call on GPs and health officials to take loneliness as seriously as other health risks, such as alcoholism and smoking.

"We take relationships for granted as humans," said Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist at Brigham Young University in Utah. "That constant interaction is not only beneficial psychologically but directly to our physical health." >>> The Guardian | Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The BMA Has Learned Nothing from History
HMP ALBION: Dear Fellow Bloggers,

Have a look at these articles from the Daily Telegraph (27th Jan 2008):

A Healthier Way to Run the NHS
Don’t Treat the Old and Unhealthy, Say Doctors

Read these and see where the UK is being lead [sic] by the fascist Left, the malignant Politically Correct and our Hippocratically ignorant NuDoctors.



I make no apology for comparing the cancer that is the "New" Labour project and Nazi Germany.



In both cases they banned fox-hunting and smoking. In both cases they targetted the sick, the elderly, the weak and anyone who didn't fit their sick mindset.



Now the overpaid, decadent fools that head the BMA are effectively promoting the eugenics of Herr Doktor Mengele. The BMA Has Learned Nothing from History >>> By Jeremy Zeid

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