Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:33 PM 3/5/2007, you wrote: >It's easy to make fun of these folks. Yes, walking would be good but I >have a feeling that they're in those motorized chairs because they >have lost mobility and CANNOT walk. > >Adam Bridge All of that is true, Adam, but I was very depressed by the number of people at Disney who were in these scooters because they can't walk and in spite of that they were in line to buy and eat funnel cakes and donuts and cotton candy. I've seen many documentaries on obese people who manage with great will power to lose weight and then gain it all back. There has to be something in the American society today that is causing people to be so obsessed with food. There were many other nationalities at Disney World. I made it a point to seek them out. None were as obese as the North Americans. The Japanese were skinny - all of them. All of the morbidly obese people in the motorized scooters were North Americans. Why? I hesitated to post these photos because I was sure somebody would respond the way you did, but I truly want to know what it is in our society that causes this. They have to know that they are eating themselves to death. It wasn't just these two. There were hundreds of people at Disney just like this. One of the most depressing sights was a very obese woman in a motorized chair who had made room for her obese young son to stand in front of her and ride rather than walk. To me it's very sad. I'll admit I do not understand it. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/portfolio