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Petitions | The White House

Petitions | The White House

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:

Exclude hot dogs and other obesity- and cancer-causing foods from photo ops that feature the president.

The nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine believes that food-related photo ops featuring the president, vice president, first family, or members of the cabinet routinely conflict with government health messages. The photos often present foods that contribute most strongly to cancer, obesity, and premature mortality in a favorable light. A typical photo op depicts a president entertaining a foreign dignitary, with both stuffing processed meats or hamburgers into their mouths for the assembled cameras. All recent presidents have been involved in such events. There is no justification for encouraging Americans to eat foods that will harm them and their children. Instead, photo ops that include food should portray government officials eating healthfully.

Created: May 09, 2012

Issues: Health Care

JP Chef, bestselling vegetarian cookbook author Didi Emmons, injured in bike crash

Chef, author injured in bike crash

Chef, author injured in bike crash

April 27, 2012

By John Ruch

CANARY SQ.—A Jamaica Plain chef and bestselling cookbook author was injured April 6 when her bicycle hit a car door at Centre and Moraine streets.
Didi Emmons said she spent a night in the hospital with a concussion after the accident in a post on her Facebook page. She noted that she fell in front of an MBTA bus that stopped before hitting her.
“It has spun a whole new spin on my existence,” she wrote. Emmons did not respond to a Gazette interview request.

Emmons is known for establishing Roxbury’s Haley House Bakery Café and writing the 1997 bestseller “Vegetarian Planet.” She promoted her latest book, “Wild Flavors,” at a dinner event last fall at Tres Gatos, which stands near the bike accident scene.

NOTE: Didi Emmons recently (April 25) lectured at Northeastern University's Food & American Society: An Urban Perspective course, the video and PowerPoint of which are at:
http://www.northeastern.edu/policyschool/lectures-and-seminars/open-classroom/video-recordings/

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Tighter Muscles - Mass Redistribution

I feel chest and abdominal muscles tightening up.  Perhaps the leg muscles are showing the efforts of my 5 mile/day walking, but they've long been strong because of my girth.  I'm unlikely to feel the difference as much as the redistribution of flab.

The steps of a good man...

As I was walking this afternoon between the Harvard Medical School building where I work to the mailroom at the Harvard School of Public Health - enjoying how many of my daily 10,000 steps (about 5 miles), I heard someone whisper out: "The steps of a good man of a good man are ordered by the Lord."

Where did THAT come from?  I looked, I laughed a little, and I continued on thinking repeatedly about the citation from Psalm 37:23.

Just a few steps short of 300 steps later, here I am tell you about it.

On my 5-mile walk today (10,000 steps is about 5 miles), I began to realize that when I'm walking (if I have enough water around), I'd not doing with my stomach what would ordinarily motivate me to eat.  My abdominal muscles are happily exercising rather than being stimulated by the introduction of food.

Quick!  Hydrate!  Walk on!