American Flab
We're back from Europe and still marveling at the state of the American waistland -- it's huge. No one on the planet looks like us...really.
And with our disjointed health system, all this flab can't be good. Obesity causes chronic, preventable health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and joint and bone problems.
Want more bad news? Today's American children may be the first generation NOT to live longer than their parents. Where did we go wrong? Does it all come down to detouring the fast food every night. Or maybe it's the way we position kids with fast food all so readily. I'm thinking of that particular commercial where the mom says, "I'm concerned what goes in her tummy" and then allows the kid to dumb a pound of McNuggets down her gullet.
How about fewer images of kids and crappy foods? Maybe it's worth a try....
Comments
I read these lines in money.cnn.com on the same day as I read your blog post:
"America's bulging waistlines have helped push Nutrisystem.com to reach to the top of Fortune's list of fastest growing companies this year".
Looks like one person's loss is somebody else's gain!
-saurabh
Posted by: saurabh shah | September 5, 2007 11:48 AM