Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/05

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Florida Wildlife
From: montoid at earthlink.net (Montie)
Date: Mon Mar 5 17:52:58 2007
References: <7.0.1.0.2.20070305144650.024f51a8@infoave.net><4cfa589b0703051633i425a489dsd25d1aafefeb5230@mail.gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20070305201152.025947d0@infoave.net>

It's a well documented American epidemic fed thru the
greed of food manufacturers and their guerilla marketers.

Maybe this could be K. Cassidy's sequel to "Armed
America"..."Fat America" ;-)

What do you think Kyle...up for it??

Montie

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 


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