Tuesday, December 04, 2007

The War on Fat

"A trip through the Atlantic's archives offers revealing insights into American body politics"

We shall match the Russians potato for potato, calorie for calorie. We shall fight on the beaches; we shall fight on the picnic grounds; we shall fight in the all-night hamburger stands. We shall never surrender! And if the American nation should last a thousand years, history will say, "This was their fattest hour!"