Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them. No tag backs.
1. My favorite color is yellow
2. I have five children.
3. I strongly dislike hummus.
4. I love pizza, most types of cheeses, & dark chocolate.
5. I live in the country.
6. I love parties and being alone.
7. I have curly hair.
8. Yesterday, I shoveled snow for one hour.
9. I have never been west of the Mississippi.
10. I live in a mobile home.
So where is our missing epidemic? Is it possible it could just be in our heads, some strange mass psychosis brought on by sheer repetition? An acquaintance recently commented to me, upon my mentioning that people my size only comprise roughly 5% of the population: “But it sure seems like people are getting bigger.” It seems that way because that’s what we’ve been told.
Lesley Kinzel, “Margins of Error.”
I’ve long suspected that a lot of the hype about the “epidemic” is part Big Lie, and part confirmation bias run amok. Another example: quick! Name the VERY FATTEST COUNTRY ON THE PLANET!
You probably said the United States, didn’t you? Or if not the US, then Australia or the UK, right? OK, now raise your hand if you said Nauru, because that is in fact the correct answer. Hell, raise your hand if you can point to Nauru on a map (I can’t). Research and critical thinking are your friends.
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