More depravity from Fox News: "The Gitmo Diet"

[Bleacher Creature]

This is a blog on the official Fox New website. I'm wasting my keyboard asking this, but how is it that a "supposed news outlet" can get away with making light of human rights abuse allegations and torture?? It's plain sick.

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The Gitmo Diet: Day 8
Friday, July 08, 2005
By Sharon Kehnemui Liss and Shana Pearlman

Turning a Prisoner's Diet into Healthy Living
WASHINGTON — How is it that prisoners on the diet can gain weight while we lose weight?

Each day the diet serves up 2,500 to 2,700 calories. This is appropriate for the young men who comprise the bulk of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Women, especially women trying to lose weight, need fewer calories per day, probably only about two-thirds of that, and that total declines with age.

Eating the protein, vegetables, two starches, canned fruit and the dairy requirement served to the men at Gitmo each day is just too much for us. The syrup in which the canned fruit is stored adds too much sugar and calories for our taste. That's one of the items that most frequently goes uneaten each day, along with the quarter of a loaf of bread and the entire 16 oz serving of milk.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161868,00.html

[OKDem08]

1. Fox news sucks!

:puke:

[LisaL]

2. Geez, what are they going to come up with next?

How about Oswiencim diet? Just think how much weight one can lose on that.
:eyes:

[Wickerman]

3. god, that was painful

I read all 7 days. That is is 10 minutes of my life I will never get back.

[Erika]

4. Faux/Bushco news is a GOP propoganda tool

It has nothing to do with reality. It's a pipeline for right-wingers for justification of their illogical and caste system policies.

[Pharlo]

5. Well, you know how these diet fads come and go,

and each seems to pick up its fair share of media hype.

"Gitmo Diet" I can see it now - this is the 'free advertising' phase (brought to America by FOX News).

Brit Hume is sitting back somewhere counting all the money he can make off of this one:

- 2500 to 2700 calories per day.
- protein, vegetables, two starches, canned fruit, quarter of a loaf
of bread, and 16 ozs of dairy.
- Overweight prisoners at Gitmo = Zero.

Torture obviously consumes a high amount of calories.

Coming Soon To A Neighborhood Near You -

- The Brit Hume Torture Fitness Center: Ever wanted to eat all you can eat and not have to worry about those unwanted pounds?
Then, the Brit Hume Torture Fitness Center is for YOU!!

A weight loss technique designed by the US military in the exotic country clubs of Iraq and the sultry Guantanamo Bay.

Yes, if you have found that the LA Diet, and the Low Carb Diet are not working for you, then the GITMO DIET IS FOR YOU.

In conjunction with the Gitmo Diet, THE BRIT HUME TORTURE CENTER offers a wide selection of specialized physical activites. Every patriot who joins a Brit Hume Torture Center is guided and assisted by a personal trainer, and monitored by a physician. And to increase the authenticity of the experience for our patriots, FOX News will be televised in all BRITH HUME TORTURE CENTERS 24/7.

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