An interesting stat came out the other day. The average American weighs 26 pounds more today than fifty years ago.
That's the average. Obviously the under-five crowd aren't contributing much to that number. Your average pre-schooler probably isn't worth more than five or ten pounds to the per-person average. That means that us grown-ups are probably a good forty or fifty pounds overweight. Each. On average.
And keep in mind the Lulu-lemon and three-hundred dollar jogging shoe crowd has never been bigger. So us beer-swilling Dorito-gobbling couch potatoes must be up a good hundred pounds each.
That's a lot of flab. That's a lot of crumpled patio furniture.
Oddly enough, while we've been packing on the beef, somebody's bragging about 99 billion served. Coincidence?
I think not.
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