[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 119 (Friday, July 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H7382-H7383]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        PORKER OF THE WEEK AWARD

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Madam Speaker, I would like to tell you about the 
National Institutes of Health and its multimillion-dollar grant to the 
University of Colorado. This multimillion-dollar grant is not for 
cancer research, as one might expect, or for AIDS research, or aid to 
children in developing countries, or for juvenile diabetes, or any of 
the things you might think this kind of money would go for. But what it 
is for is to study why people get fat.
  Now, it does not take this kind of money, it does not take any money, 
to figure out what will result from too many trips to the refrigerator. 
In fact, you could spend a fortune just buying the magazines and books 
that contain the already countless studies on this subject. Thousands 
of them have been done.
  Sure, it does appear that there is a certain medical explanation for 
some obesity, but most of the studies seem to indicate that the way you 
eat and the way you exercise explains most of the problem.
  It is ironic that this study is being done in Colorado, which has the 
lowest percentage of overweight people in the Nation.

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  So the National Institutes of Health gets my porker of the week award 
this week.

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