Plethora: Demonstrated

The American Beverage Association wants beverage companies to provide elementary schools with only water and pure fruit juices and offer middle schools only "nutritious and/or lower calorie beverages" such as sports drinks, diet sodas and low-calorie juice drinks. In high schools, soft drinks would make up no more than half of the vending selections. "It's not to say that children can never drink these things," Wootan said. "The question is do they belong in schools."

I don't really think that this should take so much priority in school agendas. They do fund extra curricular activities and I know peronally, in my high school they monitored the soft drink machines to not be accessable until after lunch periods. There are many more important and crucial things that need to be addressesd in the education system.

Phantom Health and Shrinking Menus
You think people would catch on that the restaurants are interested in profit, not changing your habits. That includes the unhealthy habits that make them more money.

Some restaurants have found that the best way to sell healthful items is to make them seem nutritious even if they're not. Fried white meat chicken strips have become popular on many menus and are big sellers, including atop salads, in keeping with the general perception that chicken is a more healthful alternative to beef. But at Wendy's, the Homestyle Chicken Strips Salad, eaten with one pack of ranch dressing, packs 670 calories and 45 grams of fat.

McDonald's has won much praise for adding healthful menu items, but only a tiny fraction of customers order them. The fast-food giant promotes the fact that it has sold 400 million premium salads ... McDonald's serves 23 million people a day in the United States alone, or roughly 16.8 billion people in the past two years — meaning just 2.4 percent of customers have ordered salads since they were added to the menu.
"The most popular item on our menu continues to be the double cheeseburger, hands down," said company spokesman Bill Whitman.

Unfaithful by Card

Gallagher hit upon the idea a couple of years ago. “I’m thinking, ‘So how do these people communicate? It’s a secret love affair,’” Gallagher said. “So I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, what better can you do than give someone your sentiments in a greeting card? How special is that?’”

Gallagher says she doesn’t talk about the social implications: “I’m neither a crusader nor an advocate for this lifestyle. I’m a businesswoman.”

Dr. Robert R. Butterworth, a psychologist in Los Angeles who specializes in reactions to traumatic stress, could only laugh when told about the Secret Lover Collection. “I can see trouble ahead,” he said. “This will be a boon for marriage therapists all across the nation, because [the cards] are going to wind up in the wrong hands.”

“The question for me then becomes does the promotion of such a Web site make adultery more acceptable,” said Dr. Trina E. Read, a Canadian sexologist and columnist. “I would guess not because even though a lot of people are doing it, there is still a huge negative societal connotation.”

--- Huge negative social connotation???? Imagine that, adultery NEGATIVE! >=(