CALL ME SNAKE

An article in today’s Boston Globe asks the question: “Is plastic making us fat?” The premise of the article is that plastics in the environment can make people predisposed to obesity and could be a factor in the general weight gain in our population. But I’d like to suggest another hypothesis, namely that laziness is making us fatter. People spend too much time sitting in front of a computer (mea culpa) and in front of the TV set and, to make things worse, they drive everywhere or–in the case of children–are driven everywhere. At my gym, where people go to work out, they even take an elevator up one or two flights rather than walk. So while some scientists might blame it on plastics, I’m going to go with laziness for now.