Fat Is, Apparently, Where It's At

According to a recent survey, Americans are more accepting of overweight than they were 20 years ago. The trend of steadily increasing fat acceptance seems to correlate quite nicely with the trend of steadily increasing fat bodies in the U.S. I guess some people feel too hypocritical to say they prefer thin people when they themselves are large and in charge. I find this funny because new diet trends are still cropping up at a pretty regular rate. Are we claiming to accept the fat while still secretly trying to starve it way? Or maybe the diets are all for show. Based on this survey, it seems like we're becoming as lazy with our health as we are with everything else. It's much easier to eat a McDonald's burger and fries while you're driving home from work than it is to eat a salad. And it's much easier to make a frozen pizza for dinner when you get home from work late than it is to stand in front of the stove and cook vegetables and chicken breasts. While it may not take a lot of time to make something healthy, it still takes less time to make something unhealthy. And we Americans are all about saving every second because it means we will have more time to sit on the couch and watch sitcom re-runs. And, of course, as far as fitness goes, it will always be easier to sit on the couch than to drive to the gym or even to walk around the block. Laziness is what Americans do best, and that, I believe, is a large part of our fat problem in the first place. I'll even go so far as to say that laziness is more of the problem than the availability of unhealthy food at which everyone is quick to point a finger. Laziness also explains why the more money we spend on diets, the fatter we get. We want a quick fix and there isn't one, and then we get frustrated that even though we're eating nothing but "rabbit food," our hips are still widening. So maybe our fat pride is an indication that we just don't see the point in trying anymore. After all, we're all gonna die someday. We might as well be happy before we go from all the buttercream frosting and pepperoni that we ingest instead of cranky and hungry from all the times we turned those guilty pleasures down.