Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Essay 826


Fat factoids and other heavy news in a MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• Perhaps in response to being named America’s fattest city by Men’s Health magazine, Chicago lawmakers are now considering making it illegal for restaurants to use oils with trans fats. So far, the proposal has received mixed reviews. “If it were just about adults, I would say, ‘O.K., we should butt out,’” said the alderman behind the effort. “But youngsters are assuming diets that are unhealthy.” Tell it to Ronald McDonald, whose corporation is headquartered near Chicago.

• Nicholos “Fat Nick” Minucci received a 15-year prison sentence for his hate crime in Howard Beach. “Black people think I’m a racist now … They made me to be a monster, which is nothing of what I am,” said Minucci. Hey, let’s not limit it to Black people.

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