WHAT IS REALLY TO BLAME FOR OBESITY

For years, as a society, we are getting fatter and fatter, eat more and move less. The very poor who have to do manual labor may stay slimmer but often use their salaries to drink beer and stuff themselves with grilled ribs, other fat meats, fried foods and much other in empty calories. We walk less, put wheels on our gym shoes, use people movers and escalators and anything that saves time and energy but allows us to get fatter.

I can't remember which kids' animated movie it was that showed people who lived off the world in a community where they had all grown so fat that they could no longer walk. It is a frightening thought but not as unlikely if things don't change for humans with intelligence and sufficient money.

GM, Segway unveiled an idea for a two-wheel, urban vehicle prototype. Fortunately the Japanese are seldom as bese as Americans (Sumo wrestlers excluded here) but if they begin to get pounds on, they will want bigger cars, won't they? After all, our obese people complain if they are forced to buy two airplane seats to have enough room for both cheeks to be seated.

Thankfully, people have had money and have been going to gyms so they can learn to live longer and be stronger and healthier. Will they lead the way to new means of transportation, save energy, learn to have fun and use energy other than burning calories from the neck up only?