Thursday December 13, 2001

Despite constant urging to eat better food and exercise more, Americans are gaining weight by the minute and are heavier and lazier than ever before in history, [Surgeon General] Satcher said

Gaining weight by the minute??? Man, there's 525,600 minutes in a year! Lessee now...if I gained an ounce every minute, then I'd weigh an additional 32,850lbs in a year's time. Since I may gain five pounds in a year that means each minute I'm gaining .0000095 lbs, which doesn't seem too bad. He could be right, I could be gaining that much weight by the minute just from inhaling particulates from all of these coal fired powerplants and SUVs.