Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Lonsberry: Is the President fat?

Lonsberry: "IS THE PRESIDENT FAT?
George W. Bush is fat.
He's healthier than 99 percent of the men his age, but according to U.S. government guidelines, he's overweight.
He runs a mile in under 6 minutes, and he rides his mountain bike like a bat out of France, but he's overweight. If you take his weight and his height and you put them on the government chart you find out that he's overweight.
Which is preposterous.
And so may be repeated claims that 60 percent of Americans are - like their president - "overweight." It may not be that we're getting all that much fatter, it may be that the government is cooking the books.
This "epidemic" of overweight may be a con..."

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