oh, the irony!

an article on restaurants being forced to list calorie counts for menu items featured the director of the rudd center for food policy and obesity at yale. each year he teaches a class called "the psychology, biology, and politics of food" which attracts over 200 students. time magazine named dr. brownell one of "the world's 100 most influential people" in 2000.

he looks like this:
he takes credit for coining the term "yo-yo dieting" and i'd wager a big mac or 3 that he's been on that roller coaster a time or 2.

do we really want somebody obviously obese dictating national nutrition policy? (never mind the whole piss-me-off nanny-state meddling issue of posting kcal counts anyway.) is this the lunatics running the asylum, or is it simply a case of "those who can't do, teach?"