Eat slower fatty!

A plate that weighs how much food is on a plate and tracks the speed at which that food is shoveled into your gob has been invented.

Apparently, speed is important. It's not the shit your shovelling its the speed in which you do it. So, eating a bucket of fried chicken very quickly is worse then eating it slowly. It's all to do with the behaviours of fatties. Fat people tend to eat quicker, and consequently the experts suggest more.

I am fascinated by human behaviour, so I agree with the premise that fat people share common behavioural traits, but eating quickly?! I know plenty of people who eat quickly and are thin as a rake. The computerised plate, just seems very gimmicky, and unnecessary, when the truth is that fat people eat more (period). Now they also probably don't get very much exercise, but again there are plenty of people who don't get any exercise, but still remain thin.

Boy 'suspended for crisp dealing'

As a clear example of how prohibition of anything, no matter how inane, causes the market to respond in unexpected ways I would like to draw your attention to the seedy underworld of 'crisp dealing'. Yes that's right the 'fatty potatoe' snacks that were once part of a child's packed lunch are now being 'marked-up' and sold on the black market. The crisp dealer has been suspended from Cardinal Heenan High School in Liverpool. A school in which all fatty snacks have been outlawed. I mean its quite funny, but it really does highlight how prohibiting a product doesn't remove the demand it only creates a culture of criminality around the product.

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