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Personal responsibility, people?
This article was among the bigger loads of hogwash I've ever read. Genetics plays ''more'' of a role in obesity than behavior and diet? Bull. Travel some. Go to Asia. Maybe the Mediterranean. People are thin there. There simply aren't chubby children scarfing down Happy Meals everywhere you look (like there are here). But Asian and ...
Posted to Green Room by ENH on July 11, 2008
This Op-Ed gets it wrong.
There is a graphic in WALL-E that shows people getting fatter with lower bone mass over the 700 years they are in space. The movie never tells us exactly how Earth became uninhabitable. It seems to me that the point of fat people sitting around, watching TV, consuming immediate obsolete goods and consuming fast food in giant throwaway cups in ...
Posted to Green Room by JeZeus on July 11, 2008