New Jersey - Supersize me
A couple weekends ago I went with a friend to New Jersey to see her mother, see the Salvador Dali art exhibit at the art musem, and just get away from school. Anyway, as we went around town shopping with her family, I couldn't help noticing that everywhere we went, in every group of people that we saw, at least one of them was obese. Not overweight, but obese. And it wasn't like these were old people who'd had time to put on the weight--there were kids, teenagers, twenty-year-olds, you name it. I felt like I'd entered the movie Supersize me--without the fast food restaurants, although I'm assuming that the fast food industry is doing pretty well in the area. Anyway, I was shocked. Don't get me wrong, I don't think people should be skin and bones. I like people to be a bit overweight. It makes me happier about myself and they're less likely to have weight-related health problems as well (A useful thing about living with a future actuary is learning stats like that). But to see just as many obese people as those who are not obese is frightening.
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