There are days that I do not know which section in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation is funnier. Is it the comics page or the Letters to the Editor section? Today it's no contest. The winner is this letter from BRYNDA L. HILLER, who lives in Decatur, Georgia.
Food tastes great, too fillingSo stomachs are sagging in the South --- what can you expect ("Living large," Page One, Aug. 24)? In no other part of the country do people eat the way Southerners do: Everything is fried, battered, sweet and gooey.
I moved here from Seattle, and within two months I had put on 35 pounds. It's hard to find a restaurant that features light, low-carb food. It's easier to get a biscuit with gravy and a slab of pork than it is to get fresh fruit, a poached egg and whole-wheat toast for breakfast. Besides that, exercise --- even plain walking --- is frowned upon. People here take the car to go to the bathroom. Even the children here are overweight.
Don't get me wrong --- the food is delicious, but the way it's cooked is not healthy or good for you. Until the attitude toward food changes, the South will always have the country's most overweight and unhealthy people.
So she gained 35 pounds in two months. WTF? Did the fried chicken pull a gun on her and force her to eat it? Did someone hold her mouth open and pour sweet tea down her throat? I know, the biscuits and gravy used her knife and made her pick up her fork and shovel everything on her plate down her throat.
Who in the fark can state that it was the food that made her fat? She can cook low fat food herself. She can show some restraint. Ooops! My bad. She's from Seattle. That's in a blue state. To a liberal it's always someone else's fault. Responsibility for one's actions? Nah!
Yep! The food made her do it. That's why she has turned into an overweight slob. Now she's probably gonna sue her doctor for telling her she's too fat like this bozo did.
As doctors warn more patients they should lose weight, the advice has backfired on one doctor, with a woman filing a complaint with the state saying he was hurtful, not helpful.Dr. Terry Bennett said he tells obese patients their weight is bad for their health and their love lives, but the lecture drove one patient to complain.
"I told a fat woman she was obese," Bennett said. "I tried to get her attention. I told her, 'You need to get on a program, join a group of like-minded people and peel off the weight that is going to kill you.' "
And he hurt her poor widdle feelings.
He said he wrote a letter of apology to the woman when he found out she was offended.
Dear Tubbo,
I'm sorry I hurt your feelings. Go ahead and keep stuffing your face until you die of diabetes or heart problems.
Love,
Your ex-doctor
Her complaint, filed about a year ago, initially was investigated by a panel of the New Hampshire Board of Medicine, which recommended that Bennett be sent a confidential letter of concern. The full board rejected that suggestion in December and asked the state attorney general's office to investigate.
They should have done nothing, but keep in mind, this is New Hampshire, which is a blue state. Now they're getting the gummint involved. Sheeesh! This is un-farking-believable!
Bennett rejected that office's proposal that he attend a medical education course and acknowledge making a mistake.
Mainly, because he didn't. He told an overweight person she was killing herself. I bet he tells smokers they should quit, too.
Other overweight patients came to Bennett's defense."What really makes me angry is he told the truth," Mindy Haney told WMUR-TV this week. "How can you punish somebody for that?"
Because liberals get offended by the truth.
Haney said Bennett has helped her lose more than 150 pounds, but acknowledged that she initially didn't want to listen.
Denial. Denial. Denial. Fat people do not want to hear that they are fat and killing themselves, just like smokers don't want to hear that smoking is bad for them. What's a doctor to do? I guess, in New Hampshire, let his patients kill themselves.
Oh well, that will mean less Dimocrats.
Posted by denny at August 25, 2005 01:20 PM
I wonder how long it will be before there's a class-action lawsuit against THE SOUTH like the one against McDonald's. You remember, McDonald's came out with a line of salads....one had more fat than a cheeseburger. I'm not sure what that did for obesity when you take a moment to realize that for many of these lardasses, fatty food is more addictive than crack while exercise affects them in much the same way holy water shooters affect Dracula.
I wonder if these fatasses would have an easier time finding healthy food if they looked in their refridgerators instead of the fast food counter for some grub?
Posted by: Duncan on August 25, 2005 03:47 PMEvery Market I go to is crammed full of fresh Veggies and fruit. The isles are stuffed with low Fat / No fat products. Brynda needs to get a life and stop blaming others for her actions.
I think everyone should look at how the libs have deamonized Smoking and take note that the libs WILL turn their cannons on Beer, Liquor, and Food. Fast cars/gas hogs are already on the radar screen. Gun Makers and Owners have already been beaten down and are getting pounded with abusive Lawsuits. The Libertarian movement cannot crank up fast enough for me.
I have never seen so many fresh fruit and vegetable stands...the vegies are wonderful in Georgia. Every place I've been offers a great salad or cole slaw ... and you can even have some smoked meat or fried stuff on top.
The food in the South is the BEST!
Who cares if walking is frowned upon...the idiot needs to do her own thing... I walk around the hills where I live all the time...my neighbor is 68 and jogs every morning at 5:30 a.m., the other neighbor is that old or older and walks his dog at 6:30 a.m. daily...no excuses...and they are Southerners who "grub" when they eat....
Posted by: Vicki on August 25, 2005 05:33 PMYou have to work pretty hard to gain 35 lbs in 60 days - way to go Brynda!
Posted by: Erik on August 25, 2005 05:59 PMSeattle does offer many choices for healthy food fixins'... perhaps Brynda should open a cafe, ditch the extra pounds, and re-think her... uh... "thinking?" Think... "Port Townsend," Brynda!
Posted by: Jim on August 25, 2005 08:10 PMI'm glad Brynda finally got to taste some really good food. I bet that explains gaining the 35lbs – she just couldn't believe how good it was! Mmm, mmm, mmm! Thank you Paula Deen and all the other great Southern cooks!
Posted by: Billy D on August 26, 2005 09:01 AMAs my grandpappy used to say to me: "If the truth hurts, well maybe it should." She'll probably sue the doctor, when she's on her death bed (due to obesity), for not coaching her to loose weight. I can hardly wait to read that article. Heh.
Posted by: Vulgorilla on August 26, 2005 10:35 AMWhy is everything always red and blue with you, Denny? Can't you just admit that people are assholes across the board?
And to prove/disprove your theory, perhaps you could give us a breakdown of obesity in red states vs. blue states, just for good measure?
Posted by: Jimmy on August 26, 2005 11:58 AMJimmy - I already admitted that there are more fat people in red states than in blue states. The South leads the pack. What I was pointing out was that it was in a blue state that someone got offended by her doctor telling her to lose weight. That and someone blaming their own eating habits (like the person who moved from Seattle and blaming the food for her lack of discipline in eating) is typical liberal behavior. It's never their fault. It's always someone else's fault. I'm poor because the rich people held me down. I'm poor because I'm black. It's the victim mentality and it makes me want to puke.
Posted by: Denny on August 26, 2005 12:24 PM35 pounds? That's a flock of chickens, and a bushel of biscuts.
Posted by: Robert on August 26, 2005 01:17 PMI see. So, you're more upset about a couple whiney fat fucks in some whiney editorial section whining than you are about being surrounded by fat fucks?
Why not just put down the whiney newspaper and yell at your neighbors?
Let's consider the pro's and cons.
Pro's:
*You'll save yourself some stress over getting so upset about reading the editorial section of the paper.
*Your neighbors will either hide in shame, or lose some weight, ceasing to be such an eyesore.
*You might just a little bit ease up on this red v. blue shit.
Cons:
I can't think of any. Is there something in the paper that you find useful? You're a net-savvy guy...why not just read the news here? By reading the paper, don't you just help contribute to a system of which you disapprove?
Jimmy - Now you're being silly again. I like reading a newspaper everyday and what's more, I get good material for my blog. You should be happy that I'm supporting the pinkos at the Urinal and Constipation.
Posted by: Denny on August 26, 2005 06:31 PM