...is the story of America itself. We are a fat, lazy, stupid people who spend way, way too much time sitting on our ample backsides staring at screens (even at home, where our number one activity is to watch other people do things on television or our laptops) and then complaining that we "don't have time" to eat healthy.
Look at this commercial again. Every single person in it is overweight. The women who are not morbidly obese are certainly Overweight according to the Evil Evil Racist Body Mass Index. The men all have pot bellies, which means they are considered "straight sized" and probably pass as "slim" in most communities today. But if you compare this to an office scene captured on tape in the 1970s, you'd see the difference is pretty damn stark. Fat is now Normal. And it's not a problem to be solved with a healthy diet and exercise, but with a little pill with a "great big story to tell." Um, ok then.
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