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.