[white trash redneck]

I suppose Tom Paine would prefer the good old days, when poor people were thin because they were, well, starving.

[tom paine 2]

No I would prefer the good old days, when people didn´t look like oversized whales waddling around the malls licking on an ice cream cone.

[jiggyboy]

I'll meet you halfway: an immediate cut of calorie intake by a full 50%.

Excepting the obvious foods I mentioned in my previous post -- soda, chips, etc. -- I'll be charitable and say that it is almost impossible not to eat too many calories in America today unless you are making your meals from scratch regularly. And even then, you have to know to avoid cheese and nuts and so on. That's knowledge that takes a while to come by.

The cooking itself takes time that somebody working a horrible job doesn't have, plus they probably don't have a dishwasher to deal with the mixing bowls &c.