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Date published: 6/16/2007
YESTERDAY, I took out a Not good. My wardrobe, like many others', is in multiple sizes. Suits (no longer worn) in size 10. Dresses in size 12. Skirts in size fat! What, I wonder, is driving the fattening of America? I know we get too little exercise, but there must be more to it. I used to blame my job for my own lack of exercise. After all, who feels like doing jumping jacks after sitting in traffic for nearly two hours just to get home? So I remedied that problem by retiring early. I used to teach math at Northern Virginia Community College. Now I tutor and write. Rather than standing for a living and sitting a long time to get there, I sit for a living and don't go more than a few yards from where I got up. But this factor alone does not define my weight issue. It could possibly add to it. I used to blame the food industry. How can it feed growth hormones and estrogens to all those cows and chickens and not expect the rest of us to get fat, too? The fatteners are in the eggs, the meat, the milk, the cheeses, the ice creams. One can give up all of those things and become a vegan, like our daughter, but we hardly have the food infrastructure here to make that possible. In California, where the standard size for women seems to be 4, 6,
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