Fat cat country
America is getting fatter.
The American Medical Association published
new studies this week stating that obesity is a leading killer in this
country.
According the AMA, 37 states report having
an obesity rate more than 15 percent. That is a bunch of chunky monkeys
stomping around our nation.
It is ironic that we are so preoccupied
with weight and body shape and yet we are some of the fattest people in
the world.
We are always comparing others to the glorified
cover girls and the beefed-up bodybuilders who surround us.
And yet usually we could stand to drop
a couple of jellyrolls ourselves. And men usually guilty of this
double standard.
There are the women who fall prey to this
hypocritical view as well. They allow the model buff guy to typify what
they look for in a male.
But hey, that's human nature.
We are all subject to the same basic desires.
We all want to be attractive and we all
want to think we can determine what is attractive for everyone else.
Our fatness can be blamed in part on the
economic progress this nation has experienced in the past decade.
The studies published by the AMA said that
the increased obesity has really taken off since 1991. If anyone recalls,
that was still a bit of an economic down turn.
Once the economy turned around we had more
discretionary money to spend.
We ate more, drank more and got a lot fatter.
That's where most of the obesity came from,
unhealthy dietary habits and an increase in alcohol consumption. |
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