It’s the final day of January 2012 and boy do I ever have some fantastic “Pictures Worth More Than A Thousand Words” to share with you! I’ve been scouring the Internet, social networking sites and my own mailbox to find some pretty remarkable examples of the good, the bad and the ugly in picture form related to diet, fitness and health. If you missed any of my previous posts in this series, be sure to check ‘em all out here: June 2011, August 2011, September 2011, October 2011, November 2011 and December 2011. Here’s the latest edition for January 2012:

This infographic has gone viral this week from somebody who’s obviously read books by Gary Taubes:

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This image of two 51-year old ladies who eat diametrically opposite diets with very different results on aging has been reposted over and over again on Facebook:

And here’s a new one that somebody created from a recent posted photo of low-fat vegan diet guru Dr. Dean Ornish compared with similarly-aged Mark Sisson who eats a more low-carb primal-styled diet–STARK DIFFERENCE:

Reader Dean couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the front cover of Paula Deen’s latest magazine cover with her and her husband gawking over a big slice of sugary/floury cake. In light of her recent Type 2 diabetes revelation, this was especially disappointing at what a wasted opportunity to educate the public on controlling diabetes:

My buddy Burt said this is “my kind of morning” waking up to a sunrise breakfast of bacon and eggs:

She 82 years old and can dead lift over 150 pounds! What’s YOUR excuse:

Is this SERIOUSLY the entrance to one of the top gym chains in America? Yep, it sure is:

You may have heard by now that the company that makes Twinkies has filed for bankruptcy. That inspired this funny cartoon inspired by the “end of the world” predictions made by the Mayans for 2012:

My friend on the ground Per Wikholm in Sweden watching what’s happening in the LCHF (low-carb, high-fat) movement there sent me this photo that is the flip side of the recent butter shortages happening in Scandinavia, especially Norway. It seems margarine sales have plummeted so much that the low-fat butter alternative (that nobody there is eating!) can be purchased for 15 cents per pound! He notes the abnormally low price still isn’t enticing people to purchase the margarine but that it’s good news for him because it’s the “best price ever for a decent shoe shine”:

Reader Susan was SHOCKED when she was driving through Plainview, Texas recently and saw these cows grazing on what you would hope to be a field of grass. But if you look closely you’ll notice it’s an old cotton field instead! She told me she was greatly concerned because “the cotton fields in this region are ‘defoliated’ with powerful chemicals that help the leaves fall off the cotton plants so that the plants are easily harvested by combine machines.” She couldn’t help but ask whether the meat produced by these cows “could possibly have this chemical in [them]?” Absolutely! She concluded that you need to “know thy farmer” because “not all grass-fed beef is created equal.” Yikes!

I want 6-pack abs as much as the next guy, but this is just odd to say the least (yes, I know this is fake, but how many gimmicky fitness products are out there that make this look tame?):

If ever there was a pictorial definition of irony, this is it:

And while we battle childhood obesity, we’re missing the obvious reasons what it exists:

On my way to the post office recently, I saw the following license plate of a man who just happened to be mailing a package and ended up in line behind me. I asked him about the plate and he said his brother-in-law died from it. This gave me an opportunity to share with him what I do and how nutrition and alternative health can play a key role in preventing conditions like this. What an awesome opportunity to share about the healthy low-carb lifestyle:

Don’t you wish all of life was as easy as a Paleo Diet Flowchart:

And finally, here’s something that should bring a big smile to the face of Dr. William Davis:

If you see a picture that you think fits perfectly within the scope of this “Pictures Worth More Than A Thousand Words” series, then e-mail the link or the photo itself to me at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. I’m always looking for new stuff to share as part of this regular monthly series–so send it on! Can you believe January is already gone?