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504,800 STEPS FOR AN EGG MCMUFFIN?

Remember the irony of the old cigarette ad slogan, “I’d walk a mile for a Camel?” Well, I have a deranged but health-conscious friend in Minnesota who has gone on a diet and is “web walking” across the United States in order to lose weight.

She got a pedometer that measures her steps and is shooting for 10,000 steps a day, though she rarely hits it. But it has made her much more aware of how sedentary she has become, and she has lost a little weight. Hallelujah!

She logs her progress daily on a website that takes you on a “cyber walk” from Delaware to San Francisco, with fascinating scenery and trivia as you go.

In four weeks, she has made it into Indiana. Not bad.

But this is bad, very bad: her reward, after 504,800 steps from cyber coast to coast, is an Egg McMuffin. That’s what she craves more than anything else, with all this dieting.

Sheesh. It’s the age-old question of teenage boys: I wonder how far she’d go for a big box of Godiva?

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