Starbucks Holiday Latte Product

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Hi folks:

I was walking past a Starbucks coffee shop earlier today and noticed

a girl outside the door offering free samples of what looked like

café-au-lait. I asked what it was in the cups she had on the tray,

and she said it was " Egg-nog latte " . I replied " thank you, but I

wouldn't touch that stuff with a ten-foot pole. " She seemed

genuinely puzzled why anyone would refuse the free sample. And no

one else declined ........... of the ten people who arrived while I

was there I was the only one who didn't 'snap up' one of the few

remaining half-cup sized samples.

I find myself shaking my head at this stuff. People really just do

not care. That is their right, I suppose. But they expect the rest

of us, one way or another via either taxes or insurance premiums, to

foot the bill for their medical expenses.

It seems to me that policies like refusing hip and knee replacements

to people who are obese have some merit. If people really care so

little about protecting their health why should the rest of us care

about their health, in the form of the taxes or premiums we pay to

fix their problems? Perhaps for a start health insurance premiums

should be based on some composite (BMI, Waist-to-hip, BF%, etc.)

measure of obesity. And on any other objective measures (urine tests

for evidence of tobacco use, might perhaps be one example) there are

of efforts, or lack of effort, to preserve health.

Rodney.