438. The Unhappy Meal

San Francisco’s new ordinance prohibits fast-food restaurants from including free toys in children’s meals that do not meet specific nutritional standards. While McDonald’s has taken steps to improve the nutritional quality of its Happy Meals, reducing the amount of French fries and adding fruit, among other things, they still did not meet the standards set in the city’s regulation, and thus could not include free toys in the meals. (read more: http://alturl.com/7y78v)(tags: Political Series, McDonald's, Ronald McDonald, Happy Meal, San Francisco, California, Obesity,  Children, Kids, Toys)

298. Michelle Obama on Childhood Obesity, etc.

Michelle Obama visited an Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md. with Mexico's first lady Margarita Zavala where a second-grader stated that "my mom says Barack Obama's taking everybody away that doesn't have papers."

"Yeah, well that's something that we have to work on, right? To make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers, right? That's exactly right," the first lady responded.

But then the student added: "But my mom doesn't have any papers" (read more http://alturl.com/qxtc)

294. Too Fat to Fight

According to a recent study on military mission readiness, an alarming 75 percent of all young Americans 17 to 24 years of age are unable to join the military because they failed to graduate from high school, have criminal records, or are physically unfit. Being overweight or obese turns out to be the leading medical reason why applicants fail to qualify for military service. Today, otherwise excellent recruit prospects, some of them with generations of sterling military service in their family history, are being turned away because they are just too overweight. (read more http://alturl.com/wp6x)

257. Silent Bob Thinks Out Loud

After being kicked off of a Southwest Airplane for being too fat, Kevin Smith and his alter ego Silent Bob make their way home by motorcycle while resembling the world's heaviest twins, Billy and Benny McCrary.