The portion of the article you quoted does’t say she ATE the doughnuts, but rather BOUGHT doughnuts. There is no connection between BUYING doughnuts and having high blood pressure. We don’t know if doughnuts are a regular part of her diet or not. We only know she bought them. It’s possible that she either eats something like this rarely, or even that she was buying them for her family and not herself. My wife and I regularly buy food items for each other that we don’t care for ourselves. There really isn’t enough information here to pass this kind of judgement on her.

We do know that she drank some water. I think it’s also a safe assumption that she drank the cup of coffee. Now if it had caffeine in it, that may have affected her high blood pressure as well, but it may have been decaffeinated too. We just don’t know.

Then again, your own first instinct may have been accurate–who knows? I just wanted to level the playing field a little. )

And if she had to wait that long for the shuttle, why not start walking home? It’s a mile between Dupont Circle and Metro Center. Takes me maybe 20 minutes. Not one of the worst miles in DC, either.

This is why I, myself, cut out the extra processed sugars, empty carbs, fast food and snack foods. Happier, healthier, and able to walk an escalator without huffing and puffing. Count your blessings, folks, and remember that there’s a reaction to every action.