Fatter Americans

Runway model during Fashion Week in NYC.

To satisfy the fast food and snack food industries, the ice cream vendors and pizza sellers, and the diet industry which expands every year (no pun intended), we all keep stuffing our faces with foods that are bad for us. The result is that the average American today is much fatter than back in 1960. Both men and women are about 30 pounds heavier now than their historic counterparts. 

Being old enough to remember when most people looked a lot better, I am startled to see so many overweight models in print ads and on TV and chubby mannequins in store windows. Worst of all, the condition of being fat -- and it is a condition -- is somehow considered to be okay. Clearly it is not okay when children as young as eleven years old develop diabetes due to being overweight.

Oddly, the "woke" view of our growing national girth is a positive one, with younger generations actually applauding it. Do they mean it or are they afraid to disagree for fear they will be cancelled? At my age I'm not worried about getting cancelled by anyone but God. And really, I'd rather be thin all by myself than fat in a crowd.