what's wrong with the US: huge portions

[RPKESQ]

Thanks Rodeo,
I order a copy ASAP!

PS. you made me blow some very good Bordeaux out my nose.

[snowman]

Snowmen are all tall, thin and handsome.

[jhelgesen]

Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
By the way, in response to the original topic. I don't think that the portion size is really the problem, the problem is that Americans think they need to EAT that entire portion. My wife and I usually split one entree when we go out to eat, we both are full and our bill is half of what it could be.

I'm with you Rick, my GF and I regulary split an entry when we go out. If we do splurg and get two entries, we take half of them home for lunch at work the next day.

[artplumber]

Originally posted by snowman
Snowmen are all tall, thin and handsome.

OK I'm back, what'd I miss?

This one is too easy. I'll restrain myself.....

[Nader]

This seems to describe one of the smartest guys on this board. From "The Onion":



I'm Not One Of Those Fancy College-Educated Doctors

By Dr. Mike Ruddy
June 21, 2006 | Issue 42•25

I'm a doctor, and I'm damn good at it. Why? Because I learned to be a doctor the old-fashioned way: gumption, elbow grease, and trial and error. I'm not one of these blowhards in a white coat who'll wear your ears out with 10 hours of mumbo-jumbo technical jargon about "diagnosis" this and "prognosis" that, just because he loves the sound of his own voice. No sir. I just get the job done.

Those fancy-pants college-boy doctors are always making a big deal about their "credentials." But I'm no show-off phony with a lot of framed pieces of paper on the wall—I'm the real deal. I got my M.D. on the street. These people think they're suddenly a "doctor" because they memorized a lot of big words and took a bunch of formal tests. But there's plenty of things about being a doctor they'll never learn in their ivory-tower medical school.

For example, did you know that human intestines, if they spill out of the abdomen during surgery, can spool out all over the floor if you're not careful? You won't find that in a book, my friend.

When it comes to practicing medicine, I focus on the basics. In a life-threatening situation, you've got to think on your feet. I don't waste time going on and on about which virus is which or whose blood type is whose. I get out the tools, roll up the shirt sleeves, slick back my hair, and get in there all the way up to the elbows. The patient's not going to magically heal just because you know a lot of complicated terms like "bovine spongiform encephalitis," or "antibiotics."

You want to know where I got my doctor's degree? At the Medical School of Hard Knocks, that's where. No matter what they say, advanced graduate studies won't teach you when somebody needs a shot of whiskey. Yale and Harvard don't tell you when to throw a bucket of water on a patient. And they can never teach you how to tell when someone just needs a good solid punch in the nose to bring them around.

While they were cooped up in some dorm room reading about being a doctor, I was out there in the real world, being a doctor. And there's no substitute for hands-on experience.

Not to mention, my rates are a hell of a lot more reasonable than what one of those college- and med-school-educated doctors will charge you, because I take out all the bells and whistles. You won't catch me pressuring my customers into paying for expensive MRIs and IV drips and electronic X-Ray Vision machines and who the hell knows what else.

Jesus, you ever look at one of those scans? They're just a lot of crazy shapes. The only sure-fire method for figuring out what's inside a man's body is to go in there and take a look for yourself. And if you want to put a shunt or a valve into a person, you don't rely on gimmicks like tubes and syringes. You get your hands a little dirty, you open them up, and shove it right in there where it belongs.

I hate these elitist doctors almost as much as I hate their Ivy League glee-club buddies, the lawyers. Between their constant "writs" and "summons" and all their hot air about "malpractice" and "licenses," they're enough to drive a man to the point where he can't even practice medicine under his own name anymore, and is forced to pull all his ads from bus-stop benches.

If you need a good doctor, you just keep your ears to the ground, and my name will eventually come up—people know how to get ahold of me. When all is said and done, the customer can tell the difference between a real doctor and some dime-store college-educated phony decked out in stethoscopes and ear-flashing things who's never put in an honest day's work in his life. But me, I'm the real deal, salt of the earth, and I don't need a diploma to tell me that.

[snowman]

Originally posted by dd74
That doesn't make sense: a friend gets trampled by a horse, somehow thrown off a 200-foot cliff, and it's related to bike rides being silly and you riding in a Porsche?

So you don't drive your Porsches; you "ride" in them?

Now that is silly, Jack.

Only a dwit riding a bike on a mountain road, trying to pass a horse could get trampled and thrown off a cliff. Moral, don't ride (or drive) bikes. Ride in a Porsche, spook the horse and have him fall off the cliff. I am an equal oportunity Porsche type of guy, I drive when I can, I ride when I can't drive, either way I am riding in a Porsche.

[snowman]

Originally posted by nostatic
oh, you read the *abstract* and not the full paper. I see...

If the abstract sucks, don't bother reading the paper. In this case the abstract is a concise and complete summary of the content of the paper.

This paper was presented at some symposium and it will be a while before the entire profession learns of its contents. What was known is that some fat is required for fat soluble, that’s why the nutritionists recommend 1% milk, not skim milk. What this study has learned is that whole milk is more likely better. Actually they backtrack and ignore other studies about types of fat and insist on using non saturated fats such as from avocados. I will bet that in the long run we will be back to everything in moderation, that’s everything, not low fat, non sat fat, whatever.

[artplumber]

Actually it's a paper based on 10 subjects, 3 of which were excluded for various reasons from the final results. Furthermore, it was based on canola oil as the source of fat, from a farm belt university and published in 2004.

Bam!?

[nostatic]

Originally posted by artplumber
Actually it's a paper based on 10 subjects, 3 of which were excluded for various reasons from the final results. Furthermore, it was based on canola oil as the source of fat, from a farm belt university and published in 2004.

Bam!?

Don't confuse the issue with clear analysis and critical thinking. That just gets in the way of the buzz words and hype. You docs are all the same...