You are always hearing top level American auto executives claim that the US consumer just does not like small cars. The dirty little secret is that Americans would like to buy and drive smaller cars but the fact is that they are TOO FAT to fit in them! I figured this out one day while sitting by the public pool listening to two obese women talking about purchasing cars. The one woman said that she did go to test drive a smaller car but it was too tight of a fit so had to go buy a larger vehicle that would cradle her fatness! How sad, my friends. The cost of our fatness even apparently effects our carbon footprint because it takes a larger gas guzzling vehicle to tote our fat asses -- not mine, of course -- from one fast food joint to another.
If you are as disgusted with the obesity epidemic in this country there is an alliance for those who want to help combat it along with students through perhaps a Service Learning project. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a partnership between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation that seeks to address one of the nation's leading public health threats -- obesity in children. The goal is to reduce the population of obese kids by getting them to make healthier lifestyle choices. If you want to know more or get involved visit: http://www.healthiergeneration.org/
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