Brain-Damaged Americans Hate Sex, Love Football

Superbugs! Libido lack! Depressed students! Football brain! Dumb food docs! Marines with cancer! Whooping cough! Headline minds! It's your Friday Health Watch, where we watch your health—as best we can, through the fog of concussion!
Laura Ingraham Wants Your Kids to Be Obese
It's not hard to make Laura Ingraham look stupid—Stephen Colbert did it just two nights ago!—but who would have thought that Bill O'Reilly would make Ingraham look stupid? Inside, video of their heated Factor discussion about school nutrition.
Health Food of the Future: Less Salty Wieners
Oooo, it's almost time for a brand new Government Food Pyramid! A panel of nutrition experts issued new Dietary Guidelines yesterday for Americans to ignore. The only ones paying attention: Kraft Foods Inc., your friendly corporate diet overlord.
Salt Is the New Sugar/Fat/Corn Syrup/Carbs/Gluten
You know what? Fuck all ingredients. They're nothing but trouble. Take salt: Everyone hates salt now that the war on carbs and fat and sugar have been won. When will someone come up with an ingredient-less food product!? [NYT]
If Nutritional Supplements Killed You, You'd Have to Laugh at the Irony
Recession health! Exercise sleep! Executive workouts! Cornhole fever! And tainted supplements poisoning you from the inside out, ironically! It's your Fitness Watch, where we watch your fitness—while shopping for creatine, mmm!
Indeed, Why Wouldn't He?
"A nursing mother offered me a taste of her pre-pumped breast milk, and I took her up on it," announces David Sedaris, to a reporter. [NYT]
