What's making me fat?

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I don't mean that I'm literally getting fatter over here, but I thought some of the information in this TreeHugger series is really interesting.

First the blog includes this map showing the obesity percentages in each state.

obesity-usa.jpg

Then there are links to a whole bunch of different things that contribute to this.

Here's a sampling:
Cheap gas makes us fat.
U.S. cities make us fat.
The government makes us fat.
Architecture can make us fat.

Some of this is hilarious. Some of it seems ridiculous.

I think the overall point is that society is encouraging us to be lazier and eat crappier food.

We'd all be healthier if we walked/rode bikes more and bought less processed, bad-for-us food.

We'd probably save a whole bunch of money too.

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This page contains a single entry by Jessica Milcetich published on July 10, 2008 1:02 PM.

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