The Gov't Wants You To Be Fat

(Los Angeles, CA) -- The U.S. federal government may actually be encouraging Americans to be overweight, fat or even obese. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends an adult diet of , - , calories daily, with % derived from fat. That means, according to the FDA website: if you eat , calories a day you can have up to grams of fat per day. if you eat , calories a day you can have up to grams of fat per day. And teenagers (, calories a day) can have up to grams of fat daily. Thus, according to the federal government, the average person can eat between and grams of fat per day or, if you are a teenager, . Now, if you go to the McDonalds.com website you will see that one Big Mac contains a total of grams of fat. And Big Macs would contain grams of fat, an allowable amount of daily fat. Therefore, in effect, the U.S. government is telling its citizens (depending on their caloric intake) that it's perfectly OK to have the equivalent of Big Macs or more every day. I don't know about you but if I ate like that I'd gain weight. A lot of weight. I'd be looking in the mirror saying "Hello Chubby!" And then I'd have to force myself to run like miles a day just to lose the extra weight and keep it off. Based on the FDA guidelines the government must want us all to be fat. And, considering the already overweight population and the epidemic of obesity in America, regarding fat content in our diet it looks like the politicians and health officials in Washington are out to lunch. Perhaps at McDonald's.