It turns out that we are no longer number one. Australia's minister of something has just reported that they are fatter than us--26% are obese compared to our 25. Granted, we must consider the source and keep open the possibility they may--as with pretending to like soccer--be engaging in another foreigner ego support maneuver and be ginning up the figures just so they can have something they can be better than us in. Still, it is comforting to know that Mississippi's ranking would easily leave even the inflated Aussies in the dust.
Of course the Australian government isn't going to just sit around and do nothing. they are going to institute a system of collective rewards for communities that lose weight. Get your fatso percentage down to a given number and you get a sports center. It is a brilliant idea. If it works then you have thinner people. If it doesn't then the fat people will stay in doors to avoid those "there goes the lardo that kept us from getting our new sports center" looks. the country will be thinner or, what is almost as important, look thinner.
Of course the Australian government isn't going to just sit around and do nothing. they are going to institute a system of collective rewards for communities that lose weight. Get your fatso percentage down to a given number and you get a sports center. It is a brilliant idea. If it works then you have thinner people. If it doesn't then the fat people will stay in doors to avoid those "there goes the lardo that kept us from getting our new sports center" looks. the country will be thinner or, what is almost as important, look thinner.
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