And the amount of juice we ("we" being Americans, especially kids) drink has greatly increased. When I was a kid, if we did have juice with breakfast, it was one of those little juice glasses a little bit bigger than a shot-glass, probably about 3 oz. Now people go to McDonalds for breakfast and get 16, 20, or 32 oz cups of orange juice and don't think twice about it.

Small family farms are subsidized, too. Nobody would farm (crops or livestock) if there weren't subsidies, they couldn't afford to! Either farmers would get out of the business, or food prices would significantly increase.

And still only weigh 115. I love my genes and metabolism!

= democrat

According to BMI, I could gain nearly 50 pounds and still be "normal weight". (50 extra pounds on my 115 pound frame? HA! No way!)

In my non-medical viewpoint... Maybe I'm superficial, but to me it seems like "normal" for the woman's side is a bit chunky, while "normal" on the men's side is a bit too thin.

It's easy to not have student loans when mommy and daddy pay the bill.

My parents didn't have the money to put me through college. I got scholarships, I worked, and I still needed student loans to be able to afford college. (And no, I didn't live extravagantly, I lived on ramen noodles, mac & cheese, etc., typical college kid food. And had a cheap apartment with roommates.)

There are many kids out there that are not lazy or stupid that need student loans to be able to go to college.

I only counted full-time jobs, which I'm on my 2nd one (26 years old, graduated college in 2006).

I've worked numerous part-time jobs in high school and college (from waitress to dance teacher to retail sales), but I don't really consider those "real jobs".
I frequently had to watch what I said at my part time jobs because of that. I'd catch myself about to say something about getting a "real job" after college, but then I realized that to a lot of people, those are their "real jobs".

I had to laugh when I bought a plastic container at the petstore to store dogfood in a few weeks ago. It claimed on the tag that "dogs can't smell what's inside!".... does that mean if you want to hide your drugs, you just buy a plastic dog food container for $20? (Bit of false advertising there, I'd say!)

You think mainstream news channels care about accurate, unbiased, factual news? Nope. That doesn't sell. People want drama and shock value. News today is more "entertainment" than "news".

Did you really just compare a method to get food with killing an unborn baby? Really?! *sigh...*

I'm hungry after exercise as well. If I exercise for an hour or two, I'm ravenous. I'll go snarf down an entire Chipotle burrito bowl (which for some reason is what I always crave after working out), typically I can only eat 1/2 of it.

Luckily I'm not one that has to worry about calories. 26 years old, 5'8", and still weigh 115-120 pounds (fluctuates throughout the month). Never had to worry about calories or how much I exercised, for purpose of my weight at least.
I do try to eat healthy now, and I need to exercise more and get back in shape, but even during college when I survived on frozen pizza and fast food and beer, I didn't gain weight.

This man had a plastic fork in his lung: http://www.kpic.com/news/national/59730562.html

But there are documented cases of hybrids being fertile.
Mules can be fertile, but it's rare.
Coyotes and wolves are different species, and can interbreed (I left out dogs because dogs are a subspecies of wolves).
Etc.

So the question is: how many viable and fertile offspring were produced? And was it enough to have their genes make it into modern human's genes?

The problem with these categories is that currently, many of the "High IQ" students would fall in the "Undisciplined" category because they aren't being challenged, thus they screw around because they are bored to tears. In fact, most of the "gifted students" are like this.

These students need to be challenged to reach their potential. Instead of 100 easy, boring, repetitive math problems, they need 5-10 interesting, challenging math problems.

I was a screw-off gifted student until I went to private school for my last 2 years of high school. In easy public school classes, I was getting B's and C's. When I went to private school, the classes were actually somewhat challenging and the grading scale was much harder (95% was a B), but I got nearly straight A's.

In our current public school systems, gifted students get the shaft. Gifted students are considered special education for a reason: they need altered coursework to thrive just like the opposite end (i.e. "slow") special education kids do.

Increasing quantity of crap is just more crap. We need to increase the QUALITY of educate. And get rid of the stupid "no child left behind". And teach kids how to think and about subject matter, not just how to do well on standardized tests.