The Leading Cause of Death in North America
From the Morning News
Obesity is rapidly becoming the leading CAUSE OF DEATH in North America, It is now estimated that by the year 2020, FIFTY PERCENT (50%) PARTICULARLY WOMAN of North Americans will be NOT JUST OVER WEIGHT; BUT MORBIDLY OBESE. AND, this condition will account for twenty percent (20%) of deaths each year. It is also estimated that average North American can add four years to their lives, simply by watching their weight and avoiding fast food outlets.
October 26th, 2010 Dr Art Hister
Cheeseburgers and crestor
if ya can’t beat em, join em.
No, that’s not the new theme song of the Vancouver Canucks, cuz, to be fair, after 40 years of futility and early times for tee-off for Canuck stalwarts, I figure the Canucks theme should just be half of that slogan.
But before they get Sami Salo to fire a puck at my head, if he’s off his crutches, that is, lemme quickly move on and say that the reason I thought of that neat slogan the other day is that a British heart expert wrote a paper (published in the American Journal of Cardiology) arguing that they thought fast food outlets should be able to give out statin drugs, those drugs that lower cholesterol levels, with the fast food they sell.
After all, they argued, you can get as much free salt and free ketchup and any size order of fries from jumbo to elephantine when you visit your local burger outlet, all of which are, to be charitable, key contributors to earlier heart attacks, so why should you not, by the same token, also be allowed to ask for a statin drug to partially offset and perhaps even to compliment the triple-deluxe shake you get to wash down your artery-clogging meal?
Most other cardiology experts have pooh-poohed the idea but if you ask me, it has some merit, even though, of course, anyone taking a statin drug would have to be watchful for side effects and complications.
That said, wouldn’t you just love it that the next time someone who looks like a terrific candidate for an early visit from the cardiac resuscitation walked up to the counter and ordered a triple bacon, double-cheese burger, the server would lean over and ask, “Would you like giant fries and a Lipitor with that, sir?”
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