OBESITY, BY GEORGE

According to recent news reports, our esteemed medical profession, in all its wisdom, has now declared obesity (aka overweightedness, fatness, lardbuttedness, and so forth) to be a disease.  And, by George, they’re right!

However, in our not always so humbly expressed manner, and adopting thesimulated title of honorary medicinis doctoris, we hereby opine that said malady should be added to the already lengthy list of mental  setbacks, along with paranoia, schizophrenia, manic depressiveness and so many others.  We say this in all earnestness.  As far as this writer is concerned, except in certain out-of-sync glandular cases, obesity stems from a person’s mind being too weak to pursue careful dietary habits, and to know when to  push one’s way back from the table.  

By way of evidence, we offer that endless daily parade we see of men looking as though they might be six months pregnant, and women who  should make pretty fair middle linebackers.