First of all Americans are really no more fat percentage wise than any other wealthy nation. Before you go flaming me please here the facts. The fact is that the Body Mass Indicator, that which is used to measure whether someone is overweight/obese is based on a medium framed man of 5' 10" with a weight of approx. 150 lbs. According to this BMI which scientists keep trying to tell the insurance companies and the whitehouse is just one tool in the toolbox, people like the Pres. and Brad Pit are overwight (yeah right). It does make some allowances for different frames (small, medium, large, and extra large) and measurments are done around the neck, waist, and wrist. Supposedly the neck and wrist will not change in size. In my case they have. It does not - I repeat, - it does not take into account the different morphic shapes of the body. There are alot of people with small necks who because of a larger pelvic girdle come out overweight. There are people who have necks as wide as their heads who are actually overweight who get a pass. Short people are just plain screwed and so are folks like me. Average folks are two to four inches larger at the chest than their waist (when fit). My waist size is forty inches and my chest size is 50 inches (barrel chested) because of this their is an appropriate amount of weight that isn't factored into the equation.

The insurance companies want us to be in as close to this spurious data because if we are supposedly this skinny they'll never have to pay out again. But don't look for your premiums to go down.

And food for thought here, ask the Aussies what happens when you store a great deal of grain with alot of mice around.

Then on top of that we have people fighting genetically modified foods that are modified to grow in drought conditions and be bug and disease resistant (see we're helping but nobody wants the stuff).

And by the way, shipping out our excess crops doesn't always work because the people we ship them to have different normal diets and this sometimes causes severe gastric problems and dissentary which causes even more death.

And finally, as Sam Kinison so eloquently pointed out:

"See this? Yeah, it's sand, yeah sand!
Move to wear the food is...Ahhhhhh Ahhhhh!

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