On NPR this morning i heard a story about advances in elevator technology so that people can safely use the elevators in case of a fire ... ostensibly, this is to compensate for making buildings so tall that it takes forever to walk down the stairs, and so that handicapped people who take the elevator in can take the elevator out. All of this makes sense to me, but then the story goes on to say that they're also doing this because Americans are getting so fat and so much slower at going down stairs than we were formerly.
Seems like once again we are treating a symptom rather than the disease. Oh, Americans ... if only we could learn to love the experience of eating, and the taste of eating good food, rather than being devoted to quantities ...
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