Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Weight of an average American woman...
...means each man, woman and child tossed out an average of nearly 1,600 lbs. of banana peels, Cheerios boxes, gum wrappers, Coke cans, ratty sofas, TIME magazines, car batteries, disposable diapers, yard trimmings, junk mail, worn-out Nikes--plus whatever else goes into your trash cans. An equivalent weight of water could fill 68,000 Olympic-size pools...
...move into the 21st century, we are steadily getting pudgier. Fat, some would have you believe, is the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse, riding right alongside War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. And it's immensely lucrative. Do you think the shrewd folks at Jenny Craig, Slim-Fast and Weight Watchers could make billions scaring the bejesus out of you about pestilence? Make no mistake--fat phobia is a big moneymaker for those who have figured out how to promote and cash in on self-hatred...
Granted, the statistics--like the scales--don't lie. And it doesn't take an actuary to figure out that with Krispy Kreme going public next year and planning to open hundreds of new stores, America will continue gaining weight in the 21st century. Which means more and more people can expect to hear the antifat refrains that I've become so familiar with: "You won't live as long," "Your quality of life will be diminished," "Society will reject you," "You won't be able to keep up in the protest marches." (That was just in my family...
QUALITY OF LIFE. I can hear the Klaxon horns blaring when I mention quality of life. Because surely I can admit that my weight diminishes it--right? Sorry to disappoint, but the truth is, my life is quite good...