Funny Gym Ecards (Pt 3)

Back by popular demand, another installment of Funny Gym Ecards. To see previous Gym Ecard posts, head over to part 1 and part 2.

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Burger King's health(ier) "SatisFries"

Hear ye, hear ye *ahem*

His Majesty, the (Burger) King, doth hereby proclaim a novel low-fat, lower-calorie french fry, available for nom nom times. Thou shall hear (marketing) tales of these "SatisFries" in the days that cometh. Foremost, Fry-lovers, be ye assured that SatisFries doth retain their fullsome fried nature (none of this baked cop-out route to healthy-ville that chips oft follow). Verily, the trifecta of indulgent ingredients - potatoes, oil, and batter - remains unaltered. Lest ye decry sorcery alone couldst yield uncompromised taste for calories few, be privy to the secret alteration. *Lean in now* The secret lies in re-jiggering the batter recipe, that it may absorb lesser quantities of oil whilst frying. Tarry not, go thither to a Crowned Burger Joint and taste these golden straws this very e'en. Yay, merrily! Huzzah! Cheerio ... Fare thee well for I've run out of Old English words.

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What Public Health Campaigns can glean from Positive Psychology

Traditional psychology studies the broken masses, and for all its efforts, mostly just compiles a compendium of great ways to break people. By contrast, Positive Psychology studies the achievers and gathers success strategies worth emulating. It's a "build what's strong" approach that augments the "fix what's wrong" talk typical of a psychiatrist couch session. The field's rapidly gaining acceptance among academics and general public alike. The research gods smile favorably upon it too. A 2013 review on the effectiveness of P-squared (what I'm calling Positive Psychology) looked at 39 interventions (6,000+ participants) and concluded: yep, it works, participants' well-being improved.

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Poking holes in Obama's PR Play for "National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month"

Obama recently proclaimed September 2013 to be "National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month." This being in light of new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that, in select states, childhood obesity rates are leveling off or even declining.

Call it splitting semantic hairs, but I have a few alternate name suggestions for Obama's month. To paraphrase his proclamation, he says Americans are making progress in the childhood obesity fight, and then lists how his wife's "Let's Move!" campaign is doing its part. This prompts my first alternate name suggestion: "National I'm-a-good-husband-and-praise-my-wife's-work Month. Subtitle, I'm-getting-lucky Month."

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