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McDonald’s: 1; San Francisco County: 0

Posted by on 6:24 am in Childhood Obesity, Laws & Regulations, UltimateFatBurner.com | 0 comments

Remember the so-called “Happy Meal Ban” passed by San Francisco County last year? If you don’t: the gist of it was that fast food restaurants were banned from including toys with children’s meals, unless certain nutritional standards were met. There was...

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This Is Just Wrong…

Posted by on 5:38 am in Childhood Obesity, Laws & Regulations, UltimateFatBurner.com | 1 comment

According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Cuyahoga CountyDept. of Children and Family Services has removed an 8-year old boy from his home and placed him in foster care. The reason? Obesity. At more than 200 pounds, the third-grader is considered severely obese and at risk...

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Congrats to Adam Slack

Posted by on 4:39 am in Obesity, UltimateFatBurner.com, Weight Loss | 1 comment

He’s 376 pounds lighter than he used to be! It took trip to the emergency room and harsh words from a doctor before a morbidly obese police officer realized he needed to turn his life around. What happened next astonished everyone. Adam Slack weighed 585 pounds when the...

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Thanksgiving Post-Mortem

Posted by on 6:02 am in UltimateFatBurner.com | 3 comments

I’m baaaack! Didn’t post for the last couple of days, as I was busy cooking. Our traditional Thanksgiving is typically untraditional… if it’s unusual and sophisticated enough to qualify as a “feast,” then we’ll give it a go. We opted...

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Stephen Colbert on “Pushy Pops”

Posted by on 5:16 am in Humor, UltimateFatBurner.com | 1 comment

Tomorrow is Monday… and here in SE Washington, it looks like it’s gonna be a dank, gray, frosty Monday at that. So I figured it would be good to close out the weekend with a giggle: Stephen Colbert’s take on the latest stupid, “as-seen-on-TV” food...

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Pizza Is Not a Vegetable

Posted by on 7:15 am in Childhood Obesity, nutrition, UltimateFatBurner.com | 3 comments

So much for good intentions… Is pizza with tomato sauce a vegetable? Apparently yes, according to Congress, which on Monday blocked legislation that would have made school lunches healthier. In their final version of a spending bill that includes planning for the $11...

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