Sometimes you gotta chill down about losing that weight... :-)
Did you hear about the heavyset guy who had tried every diet in the world in an attempt to lose weight? He tried the Scarsdale diet, the Navy diet, Weight Watchers, and many more. None worked.
Then, one day, he was reading the Washington Post when he noticed a small ad that read:
Lose weight
Only $1.00 a pound
Call (202) 555-0238
The man decided to give it a try and called the number. A voice on the other end asked, "How much weight do you want to lose?"
The man responded, "Ten pounds."
The voice replied, "Very well, give me your credit card number and we'll have a representative over to your house in the morning."
Are you sure you have the facts right?
The following purports to be a newspaper health-advice column in question-and-answer form. It was sent this way by a longtime friend of INSIGHT who got it from a friend who writes the humor column for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, who in turn got it from Ron Marr's most excellent monthly newspaper Troutwrapper, which can be seen at www.troutwrapper.com.
The credentials of this report having been authenticated, it most definitely is for the people's kind of health advice and this column intends to follow it to the letter. Of course, other folks may find its standards too demanding and opt to follow more traditional avenues to health, such as 10-mile jogs, hefting 300-pound weights and eating nothing but grapefruit and granola. So here it is:
