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...Burger King. The New York Times Magazine reported that a couple of years ago, after administrators trimmed fat and sugar from menus at schools in Rio Grande City, Texas, along the Mexican border, students staged lunchroom protests, hanging signs that read NO MORE DIET and WE WANT TO EAT COOL STUFF--PIZZA, NACHOS, BURRITOS...
...squarely with fat people themselves. When Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat, attacked junk food in schools two years ago, then Democratic Senator Zell Miller, whose home state of Georgia is the location of Coca-Cola headquarters, scoffed, "Our kids are not obese because of what they are eating in our lunchrooms at school. They are obese, frankly, because they sit around on their duffs watching MTV and playing video games, and to do something about that requires the role of the parents, not the role of the Federal Government." His Georgia colleague, Republican Saxby Chambliss, was equally dismissive...
Every once in a while, a story about a bizarre pharmaceutical side effect races through the media like a brush fire on a dry, windy day. This time the blaze is coming from the hot-selling sleeping pill called Ambien and its apparent ability to compel some users to eat voraciously in their sleep. Never mind the fact that this particular side effect is seemingly rare--or that it was first reported four years ago. Thousands of sleep-deprived Americans are now wondering if Ambien could turn them into mega-munching zombies...
...news, such as it is, is that researchers at a Minnesota sleep-disorders center are going to publish a paper in which they have identified a few dozen people who, after taking Ambien, developed uncontrollable urges to eat while they were asleep and didn't remember their feeding binges when they woke up. Meanwhile, in the popular press, there are sporadic accounts of folks driving their cars while under the influence of Ambien and even some claims of sleepwalking that turned into sleep driving...
...working on prevention by trying to dispose of food separately from non-edible trash, reducing the amount of food in the waste. “The main reasons neighborhoods have rats is because there is food,” Gogan said. “People don’t eat all their food.” Custodians and yard garbage collectors will see a rat every two or three months, according to Gogan. They “learn to go around and kick the barrels before they dump them” to scare away rats, he said...