Debt Free World?

The G8 has declared debt relief for up to as many as 40 countries. Evidently the IMF found several billion dollars laying around from gold sales in the 90's to help fund this dept relief. The new president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, seems to be behind the UK's G8 agenda. Many hard hit countries torn apart by civil war can benifit from this relief. Of course they have to actually take the right action in order to move out of their presently bad situation. It seems that this debt relief may offer some an escape to their ruined economy. However I am a skeptic whenever I hear the IMF and the World Bank are involved especially with Wolfowitz at the helm. It also seems that the continual pressure on finance ministers by churches, campaign groups and the public have spured this thing on. This gives me some sense of hope yet I am leery of coruption.we will see how this turns out.

For the Love of food

Our country has become one of the most obese countries in the world. When I was in Cambodia during the war in 1997 I found myself undergoing a lot of stress as you can imagine. During this heightened state of stress I began to seek out western food and I was eating a lot of it. I had to stop myself and I also had to force myself to eat the local food which was less fatty and much more healthy yet I had a desire for western food. I was trying not to offend the Khmer family I was staying with but I could not eat the mother's food. I felt bad and I couldn't explain to her or myself for that matter why I wasn't able to eat her food. When I left the country and my stress level went down I was able to return to a more diverse diet. There is no doubt that stress had an affect on my eating habits. Is our country experiencing a form of mass stress that is reflected in our eating habits? What do you think might be contributing to this counties elevated state of obesity?