It's all about Buffalo Wings:
Thanks Jesse for keeping our focus on owning Amarin. You and Kaylawa and others exiting Yahoo and coming here was one of my main reasons for leaving Yahoo. Yes, I do still lurk there, but my attitude has gotten better since moving to IHub.
To discuss your point about changing diets in America and this started happening in the 1940's etc. A friend at work came into my cube the other day and started talking about Old WW II photo's he had seen on the internet. He asked me, do you know the one thing I noticed in all those old photo's with all the thousands of people celebrating the end of the war? I knew exactly where he was going with this. I beat him to the punch and said, there wasn't one "Obese person" on the street at that time or that you could see in the photo's." He looked at me incredulously and said, that's right, there wasn't one Fat person during those times. My friends wife is a nurse and forbids anything the house with High Fructose Corn Syrup, artificial sweeteners of any kind, no powdered coffee creamers, smaller portions of red meat, soda pop etc. Does allow lots of fruits and vegetables, chicken, fish. What gets me is, most of us know these things and still we are overwhelmed at every turn. What choices can we make? We have to read each and every label to see what's in it. At times, it just makes you want to give up and say what's the use? And I'm not even talking about those folks who will not or cannot afford the "Organic Foods".
Let me leave the board with this; Actually, there is hope. I've seen that prices for Chicken Breast have gone down dramatically. I had a friend in the restaurant business tell me, "Do you know why the price of Chicken Breasts have gone down?" I didn't have a clue. My friend said because of the Buffalo Wings craze that's hit America. Meat producers make so much money on selling chicken wings, that the Breast meat prices have to be reduced in order for this type of meat to be sold. Imagine that; the worst part (highest fat, skin etc.) of the chicken has taken top honors. Plus I saw Diners, Drive-ins and Dives last night with Guy Fieri. he was eating a "deep fried" Pork Belly sandwich..... hmmmmm so good! Brother this is money!!!! Plus, there was the Fried "pate de foie gras" (Goose/Duck liver forced fed with corn) with french fries, where the cook would fry the "pate" and dredge the french fries with the fat drippings from the pan. Wow! talk about a heart stopper! This is typical of our diets. Am I preaching to the choir or what? Medications like Vascepa are really needed to surmount this growing trend of over eating, lots of fatty foods, that's being given "Hollywood" approval. "Yes, Margaret, there is a spot for Vascepa in our lives." Way go Jesse, keep up the fight......
