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MACDONALD: Dropping Medicaid Coverage for GLP-1 Might Be Racist

December 9, 2025 Steve MacDonald

There are very few situations in which being fat is anything other than a problem with impulse control. Combined with decades of bad food science pushed by the government and the reality that the cheap food, like cheap everything else, is at the bottom of every quality pyramid, getting and staying fat is easy. Losing … Read more

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MACDONALD: Fattest States, GLP-1 Vanity, and MAHA

November 15, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Epidemic Obesity is getting attention from both sides of the problem. I stumbled accross this Fox News has an article titled, “America’s fattest states revealed — and how Ozempic is changing the map.” A Pennsylvania health analytics company, Purple Lab, analyzed prescription records for synthetic GLP-1 products by state. GLP1 is a natural hormone that helps … Read more

Is It ‘Body’ Positivity or Indulgence Advocacy?

September 19, 2024 Steve MacDonald

I think you should be nice to people right up until they start trying to take your property or your natural rights. Race, sex, weight, height, faith, you know, the demographic drill. Even liking all the wrong sports teams makes no difference. Be nice. At the very least, be neutral. Agree to disagree. Don’t call … Read more

Obesity: Eating Less is Out – Drugs and Surgery Are In

April 16, 2024 Steve MacDonald

There are a handful of systemic barriers to maintaining a healthy weight, but most involve cramming more food into your face than your system can handle. From to much food to food that’s bad for you, less of that is not a bad idea no matter what you weigh, but some public health experts are pushing in the other direction.

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Night Cap: How Taxpayers Are Forced to Ruin Their Health

November 23, 2023 Op-Ed

The first piece of legislation passed by the new Congress of the United States of America after the ratification of the Constitution included a tariff on the import of foreign sugar.

How Did All These ‘Hungry’ People Get So Fat?

November 8, 2023 Op-Ed

President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans “suffer from food insecurity!” News anchors were shocked that there is “food insecurity in the richest country in the world!” ABC hosts turned “insecurity” into “hunger.” But in my new video, Rachel Sheffield, who researches welfare policy at the Heritage Foundation, explains, “Food insecurity is not the same … Read more

The Science is Never Settled

October 9, 2023 Skip

“…The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified…” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

Do They Want Fat Kids ‘cuz COVID Will Kill Them?

December 19, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The body positive are at higher risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. Above-average weight also makes you more likely to be or become diabetic, and that, too, can lead to severe infection and death. Is that why the CDC just changed the BMI charts defining obesity in children?

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Skip’s Sauntering Snippets – #14 – No, I’m Not Affirming Your “Body Positivity” When You’re Fat

June 12, 2022June 12, 2022 Skip

Once again, we see that the “Wokeness” crowd going after a model because they can’t be one (reformatted, emphasis mine): ‘Feels Like A Threat’: Sydney Sweeney’s Tiny Outfit At Award Show Riles Up ‘Body Positivity’ Activists A Yahoo! Life writer questioned actress Sydney Sweeney’s fashion choice at the MTV Movie and TV Awards, not over concerns … Read more

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There Is Dumb … And Then There Is Sherry Frost Dumb

November 22, 2021 Ed Mosca

There is dumb and then there is Sherry Frost dumb. The vast majority of deaths and hospitalizations reported as due to COVID involve a comorbidity, and obesity is the most frequent comorbidity. From CNBC, anything but a conservative bastion:

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Media Dope Chris Cillizza Unintentionally Proves Why Almost No Needs to be Vaccinated Against COVID19

September 13, 2021September 13, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Whenever I hear the name Chris Cillizza I think Chriszilla. A media monster that wrecks narratives unintentionally in the pursuit of anything but the truth. Take this gem, for example.

Thursday Overnight Thread – “Tom Cruise is Beginning to Look Like a Middle-Aged Lesbian” Edition

September 21, 2022June 3, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Did you ever need an idea when something absurd finds its way into your world (or perhaps just your head) and bam! You have to do something with it. That happened to me twice today.

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Gender Studies Professor – Black Women are Obese ‘cuz Trump

October 20, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Typically these sorts of cause and effect conversations begin with (insert name of anything) and end with ‘because of Global Warming.’ Sorry, Climate change. But it’s a new age. Donald Trump’s presidency is making black women obese.

40,000 American’s Lost Their Lives to This in August – Democrats Focus on 53 Killed by Guns

September 23, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Environmentalists complain about the American diet. Left-Wing politicians pander to their narratives. But they also both see population control as necessary for “saving the world.” Is that why they are ignoring the 40,000 deaths last month linked to obesity?

London Bans Obesity “Assault Food” Ads on All Public Transportation

November 24, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Despite being one of those “Gun-Free zones” London has more murders than New York City. So, what should we expect from their new Junk Food Ad Ban? Well, London’s response to their murder problem led to a knife ban. Perhaps banning food altogether is the answer? Related: How Long Before Cutlery Stores Are Treated Like … Read more

The Left’s War on Education

September 26, 2018January 12, 2013 Steve MacDonald

The left’s objection to even one tax dollar finding its way into the hands of a church is legion. It is (apparently) a matter of even greater concern that we might engage in tax policy that accidentally encourages others–by allowing them to keep more of their own money–to give some of it to a religious group.

Such is the current quandary, pressed into the arms of the New Hampshire Superior court judiciary; if a business owner is incentivized by the state to give their own money for a k-12scholarship to a non-profit that manages such scholarships, and some kid or their parents just happens to use their qualified scholarship award at a school run by a religious group, has the state shown an establishment of religion?

YAY! I am vindicated! Pass that pint of Ben and Jerry’s right on over

September 26, 2018January 3, 2013 Skip

Even better if it’s “Chocolate Therapy” for desert. I’ll take the Prime Rib Medium please….:

In a review of almost 100 past studies covering nearly three million people, researchers found that being overweight or slightly obese was linked to about a 6 percent lower risk of dying, compared to people considered “normal weight.“

Being severely obese, however, was still tied to an almost 30 percent higher risk of death.

The idea that being somewhat overweight could be linked to better health has been dubbed the obesity paradox, even though actual obesity is generally not associated with the apparent “benefit.”

“This is actually the common finding,” said the new study’s lead author Katherine Flegal, a senior scientist from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Hyattsville, Maryland.

Her work, she said, confirms what previous analyses found – a link between being somewhat overweight and having a lower risk of death.

OK, I might need to shed a few pounds to be in that sweet spot (methink I may be a bit higher than needed)