Excellent Article

[tamaranth]

... on the obsession with obesity.

"Over half the young women between the ages of 18 and 25 would prefer to be run over by a truck than be fat"

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[latexiron.livejournal.com]

$419 million federal study involving 49,000 women

How on earth did they manage to spend nearly half-a-billion dollars on this project? To tell us the crashingly obvious?

Wouldn't it have been a far better plan to say "let's study only 2000 women, and spend the rest on educating the lazy bastards to walk more and drive less"?

Or give away 4 million running shoes or 2 million bicycles with the $400 million they had left over?

What a stupid survey.