Possible unintended effects of posting calories in restaurants

The gist:

• People with low incomes need to get the most energy for their buck, so they tend to buy higher-calorie foods. (The ability to pay more money to get less energy really is a privilege.)
• Posting calorie counts in restaurants helps people with low incomes make the most economical decisions – that is, buying what they now know to be higher-calorie food.
• This is  a bad thing because high calorie = unhealthy. Who cares about poor people and what they can afford to eat?

Well, that was highly predictable.

Carrie Fisher on the media’s response to celebrity weight gain

I think Carrie Fisher’s blog post sums it up pretty well.

You see, I was hot when most people are hot—- in my fucking 20’s & part of my 30’s……THEN, in an effort to imitate humans, I had a child &, to further maintain my life like disguise, I took medications for about 9 thousand years, &, despite all my efforts, I continued to get older & older——inadvertently, I assure you———-I tried to arrest my development physically as WELL as emotionally, but unfortunately without as much success. I also must confess that I ate food. I’m sorry….. I realize that I promised never to eat anything but lettuce & sun flower seeds, but tragically, I was unable to keep my promise.

Yes, I realize…..I KNOW that I vowed to exercise for 3 hours a day—-aerobics, pilates AND yoga, but alas, I admit with a large quota of shame, that I failed to fulfill this other important commitment.
NO, I shouldn’t look as if 30 years have passed. I understand completely if you can’t find it in your heart to forgive me for looking like 3 decades have passed…….Of COURSE you should mock & belittle me for being so large!! What else could you POSSIBLY do?????!?  I’ve let you down by treating my body as though it were just some giant sad sack that I use to haul my personality around. You have every right to compare me to Yoda or Elton or Kirstie…….I’ve brought it on myself.

Via Big Fat Deal.