Take a Pill Because We are Only Going to Get Fatter

Saw this on Volokh Conspiracy blog on why we are getting heavier.  The researchers say it is due the falling cost of food, rising incomes and falling need for physical labor.  In other words, nirvana.  Life is getting easier and tastier, and the result is that we are getting fatter.  The authors, Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner, go on to say that there is ultimately little we can do about it. Food cost, availability and physical exertion at work are only going to get cheaper and better.  Nothing we do, such as dietary education, exercise or diet programs and even taxing fattening foods, will do much to get us thinner. They are looking at medicine to develop a pill to keep us thin.  That fits.

The original article was published in the Wall Street Journal here.

In my little war against fat, the numbers:

• Blood Glucose:  134 mg/dl.  Sigh. 
• Weight:  185 lbs.  OK, now that I am here I just want to get lower.
• Exercise:  45 minutes on the bike.
• Mood:  7.  Weight going down, good and GB inching up, bad.

Menu: 

• Breakfast:  Oatmeal flavored with blackberry herbal tea and craisins.  
• Lunch:  Hummus with cucumber slices, an orange and these whole wheat sandwich rounds, which are quite tasty.
• Dinner:  Pasta Rustica, my version.
• Snacks:  Soy yogurt, applesause and some sort of granola stuff.