Health food is health food.

Health food is good for you. Health food will keep you slim. Right?

Well, not if you eat twice as much.

The Journal of Consumer Research recently released a study about the “obesity paradox”; a trend that shows the rise of both obesity and health food popularity in America.

Basically, the trend goes like this: when people see something that says ‘low fat’, they eat twice as much of it—or—they allow themselves higher calorie deserts or snacks after eating a ‘healthy’ meal.

This development makes perfect sense to me. Whenever I force myself to eat a salad for dinner (I mean, how are lettuce and tomatoes supposed to fill you up?), I’ll go straight for the ice cream afterwards. I’ll tell myself, “I ate real healthy for dinner! I can eat more of this than usual! And I won’t gain weight!”

Which is, of course, total bullsh*t.

Especially when most ‘low fat’, ‘low calorie’, and ‘low carb’ products aren’t always as ‘low’ as they claim to be, and often times have unhealthy hidden components.

Now, I’m no doctor, but I’ve read enough of these America is so freaking chubtastic! studies to hypothesize that our major issue as a nation is our tendency to over-eat. Gorging ourselves on bran muffins is still gorging ourselves. Read More »

Last night marked the 19th season debut of that reality show that begat all other reality shows, The Real World. This season, producers decided to ship the cast of seven to Sydney, Australia, for four months of down-under debauchery. Whoopie.

I wasn’t planning on watching last night’s debut, but as with an awful car accident, once I stumbled onto it, I couldn’t turn away. I mean, the four girls are all incredibly hot.

There’s KellyAnne, a wild child from Texas who loves to party and admittedly loves to flirt with every boy in sight. There’s Tricia, from California, who lends an aura of superiority to everything she does. There’s Parisa, the show’s first ever Muslim, whom I guess producers felt would create enough drama that she’s ostensibly replaced both the show’s token African-American as well as the show’s token homosexual, and my personal favorite, Shauvon, a buxom beauty likewise from Cali who writes her own sex column at Sacramento State University and who may have the biggest set of breasts in the history of the Real World. Read More »

College kids definitely know what it’s like to have the munchies at 3 a.m., pass by a fast food place and feel the temptation. And as if a SuperSized soft drink wasn’t big enough to entice us, McDonald’s has recently introduced the Hugo.

42 ounces of completely unnecessary calories. 410 to be exact.

Didn’t this movie influence Micky D’s to get rid of the whole “excessive sizes thing” a few years back?

Guess the McPeeps decided that ginormous sizes were back in for good, cause the Hugo – whose name even sounds fattening, like, if Hugo was an actual person, he’d look something like this – is being sold at exclusive locations like the ones in St. Louis.

The kicker is, the Hugo is only 89 cents, so it’s been selling like crazy, thanks to the summer heat. AND you’ll soon be able to use the Hugo to wash down their new 1/3 POUND ANGUS BURGER.

American’s are getting fatter, people. Do we really need all this?

But, I guess it’s really up to the consumers out there who can choose what goes in their mouths. That’s the beauty of America – not only do we have at our disposal soda called “Hugos” and hamburgers that weigh as much as our chihuahuas, but we can either say, “No, I will NOT digest you today, fat and lard,” or “Um, Hugos and Angus? Yes please!” Read More »

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