Seniors balk at ban on free doughnuts
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070923/ap_on_he_me/diet_doughnut_debate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070923/capt.87a41292bb6c469ebcba42aa5749008a.doughnut_debate__nyr103.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=p7j5uneqgbzp3BEmiWs0PQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Wearing protest signs, from left, Geoff Lock, Margaret Colesanti and Ann Donegan stage a pro-doughnut demonstration at the Koehler Senior Center in Mahopac, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007. At issue is a decision to refuse free doughnuts, pies and breads that were being donated to senior centers around Putnam County. Officials were concerned that the county was setting a bad nutritional precedent by providing mounds of doughnuts and other sweets to seniors. (AP Photo/The Journal News, Joe Larese)" border="0" /></a>AP - It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool — and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.</p><br clear="all"/>

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