November 17th, 2009
The New Diet?
According to an AP article yesterday, almost 50 million Americans are going hungry. I guess that’s one way to deal with the obesity problem within the United States. Although the article didn’t mention the amount of lbs lost among the participants, I’m assuming the executives behind The Biggest Loser are watching. This is definitively a startling number, almost 15% of American households.
Although the 3.5% increase from 2007, labeled ‘unsettling’ by President Obama, is mostly blamed on the recent economic hiccup, I am wondering a little bit on why the number is so high. I don’t think it surprises anyone when the news of another famine, I’m sure there are a few, in Africa. Stories like that don’t gather enough attention (that means high enough ratings) for our big news channels to devote too much time to them. I’d be unsettled if I heard that’s the number of hungry families in an Easter European or South American country. But United States? That number is much, much too high to be in the United States. Obama misspoke, that news isn’t ‘unsettling’ it’s downright ’shocking’.
