Walking around a semi-industrial suburb yesterday I was gob-smacked by the ridiculous size of pick-up trucks and SUV's. These high jacked-up and big-wheeled behemoths are manned (or womanned) by all sorts of people from burly tradesmen to young women. In the case of the tradesmen the big deck of the pick-up truck invariably has a few tools in it that could easily fit in the more sensibly sized utes I'm used to back in NZ.
Super-size is seen in rubbish trucks, delivery vehicles and even motorbikes. I guess that this is a reflection of cheaper petrol costs in North America. Maybe it will change one day soon.
When out and about in shopping areas the super sizing is seen in the buckets of beer and soft-drinks and the stacked sandwiches, cakes and burgers that are consumed - with the inevitable outcome of super-sized people.
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I heard today that obesity is now the number one disease in God's own too!
Keep up the reports.
What's the price of food like?
Price of food is generally cheaper as you'd expect with a larger population although milk and cheese is expensive.
Christians of course have it best as one loaf and one fish will feed thousands.
Milk and cheese is expensive because it actually is food. You can get an app here now to scan the barcode on your shopping and it tells you how 'healthy' it is. When will people realise if it's in a packet, with a barcode it isn't really food at all.
I'm about to do a post.
I agree, big is not always good.
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