Fat Because Your Legs Have Nothing To Do

You’re fat because your legs have nothing to do.  Some machine is doing that for you.

At least that is the conclusion of an Stanford University School of Medicine study by Dr. Uri Ladabaum as reported by NPR.

Ladabaum looked at data collected by the federal NHANES program in 1988 and compared it to 2010 expecting to find that we have really started pigging out.

Nope. Caloric intake remained about the same. What was different, however, was that physical activity was a lot less. In the ’80s, 80 to 90 percent of people did at least some activity during their leisure time. About half say the same thing today.

For white and African-Americans — men and women — between 18 and 39 the number of those getting no activity more than tripled. For Mexican Americans, it doubled.

Dr. Tim Church, a professor of preventative medicine at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University said that in 1960 about half of Americans had jobs that had a lot of physical activity. Today it’s about 1 in 10.  He said that American men were burning 140 fewer calories during the day while women were burning about 120 fewer calories daily.

As a pound is usually considered equal to 3,500 calories that is more than a pound a month not being burned off.

Blame the internet.

Anyway, here’s the soundtrack for the story that we were sure you were waiting for:

 

 

Fat Because Your Legs Have Nothing To Do

Fat Because Your Legs Have Nothing To Do

Barack Obama La Vida

Barack Obama La Vida

Barack Obama La Vida, pillars of salt, pillars of sand

Barack Obama is having a tough time of it.

His staggering incompetence is becoming apparent to even the hippest hipsters.

The most love-struck soccer mom is now beginning to understand that he is basically just an arrogant a-hole.

Even newspaper editors and television commentators are turning on him.

Yes, as in Chris Matthews.

Well, Barry. Today’s song is just for you.

Things Tween Gurls Know That You Don’t

In the “Things Tween Gurls Know That You Don’t” category chalk up the tidbit that a disproportionate number, perhaps most, of the pop hits by female “artists” such as Avril Lavigne, Kate Perry, Pink and Kelly Clarkson were written by Martin “Max Martin” Sandberg of Sweden and Lukasz Sebastian “Dr Luke” Gottwald, an American who is the son of a Polish immigrant.

A common theme of the music is “strong”, “independent” womanhood through promiscuity and exhibitionism.

In the “Things You Know That Tween Girls Don’t” category chalk up the tidbit that the music is pretty bad and, well, rather manipulative.

 

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Song Banned From The Oscars

Here is “You’re Not Alone”, the song written by Bruce Broughton and Dennis Spiegel and sung by 64-year-old  Joni Eareckson Tada, which was among the candidates for Best Original Song but had its nomination rescinded after a private investigator hired by a competitor found that Broughton sent some of the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences an email asking them to give it a listen. The song comes from the faith-based movie of the same name.

Song Banned From The Oscars

Star Sign From The Theorist

Today’s journey into the whackier side of the  world wide web concerns the internet film “The Theorist” which is an entry in “Operation Paul Revere” a film contest sponsored by Alex Jones’ infowars.com.

This bit of wonder manages to touch on numerous pieces of paranoia including genetically modified foods, artificial sweeteners, fluoride — yes, Mandrake fluoride — and government microphones embedded into compact fluorescent bulbs, which is frankly one we never heard of nor could we even begin to imagine it.

Some nice things to say about it concern the acting of the wife and daughters who actually are quite good.

The movie climaxes with the hero having a nightmare in which his daughters are groped by Nazi-garbed TSA highway-patrol agents after which he goes to his basement studio and lip-synchs a song after which he is shot by a government sniper apparently concerned about the impact the webcasts are having.

Pretty whacky.

So why are we embedding it? We like the song. It starts at 31.25.

Star Sign From The Theorist

Star Sign — aka Little Star –From The Theorist
Star Sign — aka Little Star –From The Theorist