What little part of the brain that is still functioning can't help but run over things that happened in the States. A conversation I overhead on the Chicago subway was brought back to me after watching an ABC report (on satellite TV here in Japan) on the world's biggest food company deciding it wants to tackle obesity head on rather than face possible litigation in the way tobacco companies have in the past.
So, that conversation. Very fat woman talking to fat woman (in Japan it would probably be termed 'super fat woman' talking to 'very fat woman'): "He just has to get more meat on him. Man, he is just skin and bones. He's healthy, but so skinny". The thin person in question wasn't there, but it made me think a lot about perspectives and where we stand makes a huge (pun intended) difference on how our opinions are formed. I'll be writing more about fat and obesity from Australia - a country that has possibly an even bigger problem than America in that area!
Some facts on obesity gleaned from that ABC report. The incidence of obesity in the United States has doubled in the last 10 years in the case of adults and tripled for children. Obesity is now considered an epidemic in America. I would have to agree. In the case of Kraft, its parent company is Philip Morris - yes that's right, the tobacco giant. Heading litigation off at the pass must come with the territory.
Posted by Joe at July 2, 2003 03:05 PMYes, I totally agree with you. There must be something wrong with the obesity in the US! You update your site almost everyday....imperssive. Look forward to your obesity report in Australia.
Posted by: Watanabe at July 3, 2003 12:02 AMI try and have an entry every day and it is made very easy with this software I use. I think I'll be giving photographic evidence of the obesity in Australia!
Posted by: Joe at July 3, 2003 06:32 AMYes, please! The internet is already overpacked with images of beautiful people!
Posted by: DJ at July 3, 2003 06:24 PM8+)
Don't worry I think it'll mainly be back shots. Didn't have the nerve to shoot buildings in Chicago without first checking not too many people were looking, so can't see myself suddenly going up to Konishiki look alikes and sticking a camera in their face! Though heaven knows I'll have plenty of opportunities to shoot away in OZ. They don't come much fatter let me tell ya.
Posted by: Joe at July 3, 2003 08:09 PMI'll have to invite you to my next family reunion.
Posted by: DJ at July 3, 2003 10:11 PMI'm up for a return to the States (it is the U.S. we're talking about here right?) any time! :+)
I'll want to leave again, but they won't let me in without a return ticket anyway!
Posted by: Joe at July 3, 2003 10:22 PMI don't like going at all. I get all wound up and snarky when I'm there. Pity all my family lives there.
Posted by: Lisa at July 4, 2003 04:27 PMGive me a ticket to the following four cities and I'll be there as quick as I've checked my re-entry visa back to Japan: San Francisco, New York, Chicago and New Orleans. Any given order.
Posted by: Joe at July 5, 2003 12:38 AMhey i do not know what this web site is but. hello my name is marshall.
Posted by: marshall at September 19, 2003 10:22 AMWelcome, Marshall!
Joe, I'm with ya bud. In fact, never been to New Orleans but more than willing to go.
Posted by: DJ at September 20, 2003 01:48 AM