I was scanning the events section of the newspaper and saw a full-page description of a county fair coming to south Florida the beginning of April. Some of the more unusual events included pigs racing for chocolate chip cookies, a live shark event and a daily Mardi Gras parade. But none competed for my attention as much as a listing of the deep-fried food offerings by the director of the concessions. Apparently these snack foods have replaced the traditional cotton candy, candied apples and jumbo hot dogs of former years.According to an article in the Miami Herald by Jaweed Kaleem,some of the treats awaiting the fair goer included deep-fried cheesecake, Oreo cookies, Pepsi balls (doughnut holes injected with Pepsi syrup), and elephant ears (fried dough with cinnamon and sugar). If, after eating these concoctions, you felt the need to eat something a tad more nutritious, you could buy a roast beef sundae. This is a bowl of mashed potatoes with gravy, slices of beef and a cherry (tomato) on top.

Find out what it does for your body and some simple ways to sneak it into your diet. Do you eat enough fiber? Probably not. Most of the foods we tend to eat contain very little. Milk and milk products, such as cheese, yogurt and ice cream, contain none. Beef, chicken, fish, eggs and processed cold cuts contain none.

Back in February I wrote about how Whole Foods was "greenwashing" their consumers with their 100% Recycled Paper Bag initiative. Well, no "greenwashing" for IKEA.

Today is the 40^th anniversary marking the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At the present time in our history, an African American male is a Democratic contender for the 2008 presidency. Indeed, our attitudes and behaviors as a nation have evolved in forty years, slowly but surely. And slowly but surely is the key to moving forward – in evolution, in life, in weight loss and maintenance.