Too Fat to Diagnose
Another addition to my entries about obesity. I found this little blurb in a Friday news story. According to the results of a fifteen-year study published in the August issue of "Radiology", more and more patients are presenting radiologists with a weighty problem. The medical establishment is finding that these people who weigh more than 350 pounds are either too large for x-ray scanners or that their x-rays are difficult for radiologists to read because the fat tissue is too dense.
I just kind of shook my head when I read that and forgot it for a while, but today I kept seeing it again in my mind's eye as I did some shopping at Costco. There were five or six employees set up with their taste samples at aisle's end and each one of them was surrounded by eager shoppers, hands out for their share. What struck me about each such scene was the number of girths already too wide that were waddling away with a fistful of unneeded calories.
I know Costco does this to sucker people into buying food products they might otherwise bypass. What I don't know is why so many people line up like pigs at a trough to partake in this pathetic little porker ritual. Maybe Costco could start a new handout tradition - in order for anyone to receive a food sample, rather than lining up, they should be expected to do fifteen minutes on a treadmill first.
Do you think it would sell?
I just kind of shook my head when I read that and forgot it for a while, but today I kept seeing it again in my mind's eye as I did some shopping at Costco. There were five or six employees set up with their taste samples at aisle's end and each one of them was surrounded by eager shoppers, hands out for their share. What struck me about each such scene was the number of girths already too wide that were waddling away with a fistful of unneeded calories.
I know Costco does this to sucker people into buying food products they might otherwise bypass. What I don't know is why so many people line up like pigs at a trough to partake in this pathetic little porker ritual. Maybe Costco could start a new handout tradition - in order for anyone to receive a food sample, rather than lining up, they should be expected to do fifteen minutes on a treadmill first.
Do you think it would sell?
1 Comments:
Oh, you know the treadmill wouldn't work -- that takes effort. Sometimes I feel like many oinking sounds when I walk by the troughs at grocery stores. There are so many piggies out there. As a society this is now way beyond a big problem. It's a case of over supply and voracious appetites. A bad combo. There is so much available, that we're enticed and highly encouraged by marketers to gorge ourselves. Our bodies of course don't help. They've been designed to take in as much as possible and store for the lean times. For most of the obese, the lean times will only come when they've kicked the bucket -- by then the stores will be completely useless.
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