U.S. bad for immigrants’ waistlines
January 10th, 2005 | Published in Culture
U.S. bad for immigrants’ waistlines
Another sad commentary on our society.
“Part of the American dream and sort of life of leisure is that you also have some of the negative effects, and obesity is one of the major side effects of the success of technology and just having a life of leisure,” said co-author Dr. Christina Wee of Harvard Medical School. “It’s a double-edged sword.”
A life of leisure? What in the world do most people do with it? Lobotomize themselves with TV, movies, video games, and anything else that is shiny, flashes and makes noise.