[truthguy]

I follow the news pretty carefully and I cannot remember anyone blaming India for the rise in food prices. Where did this come from? Most of what I have read from Free Republic and the other news sources which I read blame a lot of the problem on the stupidity of the ethanol program we have going.

The Indians have a point about a lot of Americans being overweight. I see fat disgusting people everywhere. It really is a bad situation. I was just watching a news documentary about WWII and just looking at the Americans on the home front it is easy to see that we were much thinner in the 1940’s. I see fat people just about everywhere today. My late mother before she died was constantly talking about how many more fat people she saw and how this had come about over the past 30 or so years.

It is a national disgrace!

[weegee]

Define "overweight". We have more round (morbidly) obese people but the BMI index would put many Americans from past eras into the "obese" category. The BMI scale wants men and women to weigh the same target weight. And the curvy pinups of old were the "ideal", not skinny/bony people.

True people had to cut back in the depression and food items were rationed during The War.

A generation before that, your belly showed your "wealth".

Maybe more fat people get out of the house than in the old days. Ironically the travelling circus permitted more REALLY obese people to be seen in public than seem to make it out today (you hear about these people who need to have their house altered just to get out to see the doctor).