The things that I find are funny should alarm me, I suppose. The rising obesity rate in the world is a really bad thing. Yet at the same time, really, all that people have to do to keep the weight off is stop eating so damn much.
It would sure help save crematoriums a lot of grief if nothing else. A crematorium in Austria just burned to the ground because a 440 pound fat pig of a woman’s body was SO fat that some of it blocked off an air filter and the fire got way too hot.
Other crematoriums in Germany and Switzerland have suffered the same fate recently and Switzerland even built a new crematorium just to accomodate the very corpulent dead.
I get this cartoon picture of the future, where people are so fat that when they’re cremated, the big burner is surrounded with smaller burners where all the excess fat runs in from little channels from the body. A crematorium shaped kind of like an octopus to burn bodies the size of small mountains.
It seems like a waste. I mean, all that good oxygen consumed and all that fat gone up in smoke. We should at least be able to convert all that heat energy back to electrical power. Put those bloated pig’s corpses to some use as fuel for a power plant. I’m for it.
Special crematoria for the morbidly obese? Are you kidding me?
I wasn’t aware that there was an obesity problem in Europe!
Now, I know that the rarest of situations can lead to “blameless” obesity. I have a dear friend (age 54, I think) who is grossly overweight due to being bedfast for over 20 years, her condition caused by a surgeon’s error. The husband just doesn’t have time to fix proper meals — he has to work three jobs to keep body and soul together (and to pay for health insurance).
When my husband was in the nursing home (a really nice one), we saw only three morbidly obese people. But we’ve seen fatter — and younger — people, that’s for sure.
What amazes me now: the huge numbers of teenagers with “muffin top.” The rest of their bodies aren’t very fat, but those “muffin tops” clearly indicate very low muscle tone.
99 and 44/100ths % pure of all obese slobs are that way because they love to eat, usually junk food and lots of sugar-loaded sodas.
Current obesity figures for Europe and the United States both is 60% of all of us are obese. I mean, WOW!
Went to Golden Corral on Memorial Day for dinner, and i could’nt eat anything but the salad …..the food there is waaaaaaaaaaaay too fatening. You shoulda seen some of the people there, it was disgusting ! I try to have sympathy for em, but it’s getting harder. A lot of people eat because they are addicted to food, they need to get help. As for me , i used to eat too much , but was never morbidly obese. One day i thought , gee i want to live for a while yet and it was then i made the CHOICE to get fit.