[wildrosegirl]

Yogi Yogi:

Or would you have us all believe that peeps who live 'healthy life-styles' will just one evening, pop their teeth into the ol 'chopper hopper' turn out the bedside lamp and close your eyes for the last time???

That's cute.

Just for you then, Yog. I made you a cake for dessert after your Double Downs and Pepsi:

[Yogi]

wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:

Yogi Yogi:

Or would you have us all believe that peeps who live 'healthy life-styles' will just one evening, pop their teeth into the ol 'chopper hopper' turn out the bedside lamp and close your eyes for the last time???

That's cute.

Just for you then, Yog. I made you a cake for dessert after your Double Downs and Pepsi:

Now there's a dessert to die for! Umm. Rosie. The inscription on the cake.........Have you been talking to my daughter lately??? She is quite fond of reminding me of this very fact!

[wildrosegirl]

Yogi Yogi:

wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:

Yogi Yogi:

Or would you have us all believe that peeps who live 'healthy life-styles' will just one evening, pop their teeth into the ol 'chopper hopper' turn out the bedside lamp and close your eyes for the last time???

That's cute.

Just for you then, Yog. I made you a cake for dessert after your Double Downs and Pepsi:

Now there's a dessert to die for! Umm. Rosie. The inscription on the cake.........Have you been talking to my daughter lately??? She is quite fond of reminding me of this very fact!

Don't sweat it. Just think of it as her probing her job security level.

[CanadianJeff]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Frankly, I apply the "King's Coin" rule to this. So long as health care is provided by the government then the government is obligated to restrict such offerings. It's a matter of the government's fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayer to contain health care costs.

That's a slippery slope down the path of police state for your own good and you know it.

Seriously though this sandwhich does need to come with a warning:

"coronary bypass not included." "Liposuction sold separately"

[Yogi]

Salt cuts would boost health care savings: Expert
By Michael Woodm, QMI Agency

Last Updated: October 18, 2010 10:40pm

.CALGARY — An initiative to put the pinch on global dietary salt intake would save Canadian health care systems alone billions in related costs.

That was the message delivered by the University of Calgary's Dr. Norm Campbell on the eve of a two-day World Health Organization conference taking place in Calgary.

The global health authority has been working for months to organize efforts to develop national salt reduction programs across the globe.

The conference is a step toward developing strategies that would allow countries to determine just how much salt their citizens are consuming and how to curb it.

The undertaking follows new WHO calculations that suggest increased blood pressure, which causes strokes, premature heart attacks, heart and kidney failure, is the leading cause of death in the world.

Dietary salt comes high on the list of factors which contribute to high blood pressure.

In Canada, it accounts for three in 10 cases of high blood pressure, Campbell said, adding implementing reductions could reduce cardiovascular diseases by about 10%.

"That would save more than a billion (dollars) per year in health care expenses. It would have a substantial impact on reducing the amount of blood pressure, strokes, heart failure and heart attacks," Campbell said.

On average, Canadians consume about 3,500 mg of sodium daily. The goal is to reduce that intake to 2,300 mg by 2016.

Linda Piazza, director of research and policy at the Heart and Stroke Foundation in Ottawa, said the savings on Canada's health care would probably surpass Campbell's estimates.

"Put it this way, about $21 billion annually are the health care costs and loss of productivity costs related to cardiovascular disease and 80% can be prevented through behavioural changes and a huge piece of that is reducing sodium that we take in our food," she said.

As the Calgary conference kicked off, so too did the Canadian arrival of KFC's Double Down sandwich - a bacon and cheese sandwiched between two pieces of boneless fried chicken which 1,740 mg of sodium.

Piazza said such a sandwich flies in the face of everything the Heart and Stroke Foundation is working to curb.

"It's quite shocking, frankly, in this day and age," she said.

Not going to happen! After I take the first bite of a meal, if I don't think it is 'salty enough', I add salt to my liking.

[ShepherdsDog]

Both of my grandfathers died in their mid to late 60s. Everyone said that they'd lived a good life. I don't remember anybody saying that they'd died young. A long life isn't always a full life.

[QBall]

KFC couldn't pay for this kind of advertising.

[Yogi]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Both of my grandfathers died in their mid to late 60s. Everyone said that they'd lived a good life. I don't remember anybody saying that they'd died young. A long life isn't always a full life.

In the words of William Wallace; "Every man dies; Not every man has lived"!

I tried a 'double-down' the other day. It turned out to be a 'double disappointment'!

I watched her put it together. A couple pieces of dried breastmeat off the warming rack; 1 strip of cooked bacon; 1 slice of processed cheese; 1 teaspoon of their 'secret sauce; ( tasted, and looked suspiciously just like thousand island salad dressing!) nuked for about 40 secs and that's it!

[PublicAnimalNo9]

OK, I finally tried one but not from KFC. My wife made us one tonight with REAL swiss cheese and maple smoked bacon. I threw some peppercorn ranch sauce on mine and it was friggin deee-lish!!

Wouldn't touch one or anything else from KFC on a bet or a dare though

[Public_Domain]

[sandorski]

I want one!!