Here's some cognitive dissonance for you:

Just as the NIH is telling us that obesity is passing smoking as leading avoidable cause of death, the House has passed a bill making it virtually impossible to sue fast-food establishments for making you fat. Nevertheless, McDonalds will no longer offer the supersizing. Bottom line: There are more of us trying to eat ourselves into an early grave than smoke ourselves into an early grave. Seizing the opportunity, McDonalds is going to make it more expensive to do so (now I must buy two happy meals) and forgot about suing them when I am on death's door.

My head nearly explodes at the unbelievable over-simplification of the issue. As if people get into the fast food rut by choice. As if people don't exercise simply because they are lazy.

Its the Revenge Effect of our own productivity that leads Americans into astoundingly unhealthy lifestyles; quite the opposite of being lazy.

This rant goes on so I'll fast forward too the absurd (but inevitable) conclusion: All workplaces should be required to have a 40 minute recess in addition to lunch, plus a 30 minute nap time instead of a "coffee break", and a summer vacation after which time you would always have a new boss. No one should have offices, instead everyone should sit in big rooms with their desk facing their boss and their boss' desk facing them. Okay, the principal can have an office. And we'd have report cards! And a prom! And when we were bad, the principal would call our parents! And twice a year the mummenschanz would perform, thanks to the PTA!

All this thinking is making me hungry for a Big Mac.