Wanted: Lab Rat

Job Description: You will be the recipient of a powerful new drug called food. Your job is to simply log your nutritional intake 3 times per week for 2 weeks, truthfully answer a couple of lifestyle questions, and allow it all to be critiqued on line. You, of course, will remain completely anonymous.

Job Requirements: Only that you be one of the many people I've spoken with recently who has answered my question, "How are you eating?" with the words, "pretty good." Often the word "pretty" is drawn out as to indicate a degree of uncertainty about the next word, but the point is that you believe you know what a great diet is and that you're practicing it with some diligence. Not necessary that your knowledge about diet has come from GJ, only that you believe it is a healthy one.

How to apply: Send me an email or see me personally for further details. I need several rats for this project.

As most of you know, that thing that you're working for called fitness is never achieved by physical challenge alone. I know a lot of you will benefit from a real-world example of lifestyle choices and how they affect us.

News Item: "Rats that consumed cheesecake, icing and other products found at a Florida supermarket not only made the rats fat but triggered behaviors that included a refusal to eat more-nutritious fare, and a refusal to lay off the fattening stuff even when a mild electric shock was administered, Paul Kenny, one of the authors, told the The Palm Beach Post. 


The Post said on Monday that the conclusions could bolster what was an increasingly popular theory that junk food has addictive characteristics that contribute to the surge in obesity in the United States."