I'm a fat guy, and I'm not alone.Īccording to a study published in the May 29, 1998, issue of Science, 54 percent of American adults (and 25 percent of children) are overweight (and that figure is likely skewed downwards by all the people who crash-diet the week before their annual physicals because they know they're going to get weighed). Pounds and still be fat, as in I'm 5-foot-10 and 250 very apparent pounds (plus or minus 10 pounds depending on what I ate that day).
But I don't, because I love food (and I even eat food I don't love,īecause I love the mere act of eating). Little heavy.' There's nothing wrong with any of my glands. Such thing), I don't 'carry it well,' and I'm neither 'husky' nor 'just a I'm not 'big-boned' (surprise, there's no
And the advantages are many - not least of which is that you can eat whatever you want. That the world is run by fat guys is no secret (more on this later), yet Americans devote a tremendous amount of time, effort and money to losing weight without ever stopping to consider the advantages of obesity.
