Lynn Coleman Gardner – 4/11/10

This page was last updated on April 11, 2010.

Benefits of exercise are overwhelming; Lynn Coleman Gardner; Beaver County Times; April 11, 2010.

Previous letters from Ms. Gardner are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I sure am glad that the health care reform law that was passed recently requires more than 200,000 fast-food and other chain restaurants to include calorie counts on their menus, menu boards and even drive-through order stations.”

[RWC] Based on Ms. Gardner’s letter-writing body of work, who would have guessed she supported a government-run, taxpayer-funded healthcare monopoly? <g> Please read my paper entitled “Healthcare.”

I disagree with requiring “more than 200,000 fast-food and other chain restaurants to include calorie counts on their menus …,” but why wasn’t everyone included? What happened to equal protection under the law? I think it’s great when restaurants voluntarily post calorie counts, but I don’t believe it should be required. I also would like to know where in the Constitution this requirement is permitted.

“The long, snowy winter made it easy to pop in a movie and eat so-called junk food, and it has me working doubly hard to get off those extra 10 pounds.”

[RWC] Does Ms. Gardner know this paragraph argues against the efficacy of posting calorie counts? You see, Ms. Gardner just told us the “long, snowy winter made it easy to … eat so-called junk food.” Since “so-called junk food” has the calorie count on the package, apparently having that info didn’t stop Ms. Gardner from putting on “those extra 10 pounds.”

“The whole time I’m putting on my exercise gear, I’m complaining to myself because I don’t feel like working out. However, I get on my bright colors and get those 10,000 steps in several times a week. The benefits of exercising are overwhelming.

“I just wish drivers would slow down and be more cautious - and get off their cell phones.”

[RWC] About seven weeks ago Ms. Gardner wondered “if Sarah Palin will do anything to be in the spotlight,” yet here is Ms. Gardner writing a trivial letter with no apparent purpose other than to draw attention to herself.