In a world of deep-fried Twinkies and chocolate-covered everything, diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are obviously going to be prominent. The U.S media has a field day with stories about overweight Americans who can't get out of their beds, much less breathe due to an unhealthy diet. But as fatty supersized meals gain popularity, Kirk Draut from Peppers and Smoke decides to cross the line further.

Draut has created a deep-fried, cheese-stuffed, burger patty made from 100 percent ground bacon. That's right; no beef...just pure pork. I have heard about deadly foods before, but I really think this burger tops it all. Heart attack on a bun never meant anything until now.

Just to put things in perspective, a Whopper with cheese at Burger King is about 760 calories. Keep in mind the patty is not deep-fried, and is also not made from bacon. I'm not sure how many calories Daraut's burger creation has, but I'm sure it's not pretty.

Nevertheless, if you decide to try the newest component to obesity, enjoy it. Just try not to pig out on it too often.

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Babble ran a story a few months ago by the author Jennifer Baumgardner about how her friend suggested they nurse each other's babies.

When my son was a few months old and my dear, dear friend Anastasia was at the end of her pregnancy, she turned to me one day and said, "I have a request."

"Anything," I said. After all, she had come over two or three times a week since my baby was born to help me as I finished a book. She'd done everything from returning phone calls to burping the baby to vacuuming. When she tipped over in the course of trying to rock my son, Skuli, she bonked her head rather than drop him, prompting me to wonder if it was fair to relegate administrative tasks and baby-care to a woman who was nine months pregnant.

"I want us to nurse each other's babies," Anastasia said.

People will buy anything! Set up a stand near Central Park in New York and offer people bags of "fresh air from the Alps" and you are sure to find suckers willing to pay you a few bucks for it.

Somehow in the last few years our family has joined the national trend of people purchasing water. Last year sales of bottled water were in excess of 2.6 billion cases costing around $15 billion. I'm sure my parents would laugh at the idea, and future generations will probably also guffaw at the stupidity of it. But today we all seem convinced that bottled water is somehow better than tap water. Evian. Perrier. Pellegrino. How ravishing it seems to be drinking water not from the good old faucet but from some Elysian spring in the French mountains or the Italian countryside, untouched by technology and grubby human hands. Of course we never think of what happens to that water as it gets bottled and stored and transported over thousands of miles. We don't think of botled water as water that someone got from some unidentified rivulet several weeks ago.

Now Aquafina has exposed our illusion that bottled water comes from a more elevated source than tap water by revealing that its bottled water is, in fact, drawn from tap water. A spokesman for the company says Aquafina botles will in future "clarify" this fact for discerning bottle readers. Yet industry observers say that the new revelation shouldn't make much of a difference. "Consumers have an affection for bottled water," writers John Sicher of Beverage Digest. "It's not an issue of taste or health, it's about convenience." I find this to be a ridiculous statement. Why on earth would people buy bottled water at the airport, for example, when there are water fountains outside every restroom? I suspect that if people know they were getting pretty much the same thing in the bottle, they would start to feel very foolish.

As for me, no more Aquafina. I'm going back to Chardonnay.