We Want Our Donuts

Posted by: Curt | Under: Diet and Weight Loss, General Fitness, Health, Seniors/fit | (0) Comments

Here is an article that I really don’t need to comment too much on… But I will say this- if you put donuts and pastries out in front of most people, they will eat them until they are gone. That is the American way.

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MAHOPAC, N.Y. – It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool — and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.

They wore sandwich boards proclaiming, “Give Us Our Just Desserts” and “They’re Carbs, Not Contraband.”

At issue is a decision to refuse free doughnuts, pies and breads that were being donated to senior centers around Putnam County, north of New York City. Officials were concerned that the county was setting a bad nutritional precedent by providing mounds of doughnuts and other sweets to seniors.

…Inside, some seniors said they missed the doughnuts but others said they were glad to see them go.

“It was disgusting the way people went after them,” said 80-year-old Rita Jorgensen. “I think the senior center did them a favor by taking it away.”