Tell President-elect Obama how you feel

Here's a chance to contribute to the next administration's health care agenda: Take 10 minutes to go to this site and post about an issue you care about. Mental health parity? Health at Every Size? More funding for eating disorders research? Whatever's near and dear to your heart, tell the change team. Today. Really. Because how often do we get a chance like this?

One Reason I'm not Voting for Obama

"Reducing obesity to 1980 levels will save Medicare $1 trillion." -- Barack Obama

Now a new study, as reported by Junkfood Science, calculates that reducing obesity actually costs governments more money in the long run.

What the study really points out, says JS, is the ridiculousness of coming up with such estimates in the first place. And I would add, the moral sledgehammer of using them in sound bytes, to make points that truly do not exist.

We've already had a president who fudges with spectacular ease and seeks to impose his own moral code on all of us. Please, let's not have another.**


**Oh, wait, do any of the candidates pass this test?