Is it my imagination or is this nation obsessed with being fat? Already there are self-help style books to help our poor, over-fed children and teenagers, (for example
Every day there is almost guaranteed to be something about fat, or at least food, in the news. Last week alone saw too many stories on food and fat than I'd like to remember: eating bacon can give you pancreatic cancer (btw, it's not the bacon that causes this, it's the sodium nitrite that's added to it...but adding chemicals to food is another subject), that women's weight problems were linked to 6,000 cancers a year and there were even new claims that larger people live longer.
Personally, I'm all for the "a little of what you like can't do you no harm" philosophy one of my Mum's elderly friends had (sadly deceased). She was 91.
Perhaps if we weren't obsessing about what we eat and how large our thighs are, we could concentrate on the more important things in life.
And as for the hedgehog...when it gets reintroduced to it's habitat, theres always the risk it could go back to its usual habits, like having a food addiction? What would you choose if you were it: bread or cat food?
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Recently on the crappiest news station in america, they were debating if Santa Claus should be fat anymore... Some guys are doing skinny Santa this year, in order to "help child obesity"...
They forget that KIDS don't cause their own obesity! Their parents do. It's not like the kid is doing the grocery shopping...
Skinny santas? It just doesn't seem right! Of course it is the parents' fault, but they don't like to be told that.
You know, I still remember when there used to be green and blue Santas (before they all went to cola red)...do you think there will be a day when fat Santas will be just a memory too?
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