November21
America’s Obesity Epidemic
* In 1960-62, the average man weighed 166.3 pounds. By 1999-2002, the average had reached 191 pounds.
* Similarly, the average woman’s weight rose from 140.2 pounds to 164.3 pounds.
* The National Center for Health Statistics reported a dramatic increase in weight when measured by body mass index, a scale that takes into account both height and weight. Average BMI has increased from about 25 to 28 during the past 40 years.
* Two-thirds of Americans (over 64%) are overweight. Almost one-third is obese.
* According to the U.S. Surgeon General’s report (issued in December 2001) more than 60 percent of U.S. adults are considered overweight.
* The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that obesity is responsible for more than 325,000 deaths a year.
* About 27% of Americans are classified as obese, which reflects a rise by 50% in the last 10 years. Even more startling, a recent study published in USA Today predicts that number will increase to 40% by the year 2005.
Source: Jenny Craig
One of the major reasons that Americans are fat (and becoming fatter each year) is because everything is so damn convenient. Escalators, crappy fast food, soda machines more plentiful then water fountains, etc. etc. etc. So, with this is mind, I have figured out the perfect way to lose weight. I’m calling it the Hunter/Forager Diet and the rules are simple. You have to hunt and forage for, and prepare your food as you get hungry.
1. Empty out your refrigerator and your cupboard.
2. Whenever you get hungry, you must walk, run or ride a bike to the store and “hunt” for your food.
3. You can purchase only raw items that you have to prepare in order to make one meal.
4. Repeat next time you’re hungry.
I swear this will work 
. At least for me, if food isn’t convenient, I’m too busy to eat. I wanted a snack the other night and decided I was going to have macadamian nuts since there are three huge macadamian nut trees in my yard. I went out and hunted for a handful in the dark, came back and about 7 were consumable. I removed the husk from each one and proceeded to whack the fuck out of them, with a hammer, trying to crack the shell. Two of them I hit too hard and smashed them to oblivion, so after all that work, I had 5 nuts (that I still had to dig out of the cracked shell with a knife). They were good, so I definately wanted more, but it was too much work, so I stopped eating. If I had a jar of shelled, salted macadamian nuts from the store, I could have easily eaten 1 cup (or more), which is 962 calories and 101.5 grams of fat. Yikes!
This arrangement of mystery flowers showed up on my doorstep today. It was addressed to me, had my address and my cell phone number, but no clue as to who they are from. It wasn’t Stefan and as far as I know, anyone that has my cell phone number does not know my address.
For Halloween, Stefan and I went up to Los Angeles to hang out with Shea and Tanya. It was great to get out of town and Stefan and I got killer massages before the Halloween festivities started. We pre-partied at Shea’s house in Venice Beach and then headed over to a house party in Studio City. It was fun for a while but the whole Los Angeles/Celebrities thing wore off pretty quick. Plus a party of 100 or so people with one bathroom is not really where you want to be once you “break the seal”. Long story short, Stefan and I decided to pee in the neighbors yard, I got mistaken for a dog, I peed on my screwdriver (don’t worry, I left it there…) and we got into the last party that was “full” because we were obviously working for the city and had to do some inspections…