Is Fat Phat?
Here's a happy story: A quarter of the world is overweight, according to the International Obesity Task Force, which sounds like a 21st-century version of SMERSH or, worse still, something out of a Matt Helm movie (shouldn't Victor Buono be the head of the IOTF?).
The main culprit in intercontinental corpulence is--damn them all to hell--"cheap, plentiful food. Even in poor nations, the relative cost of eating is declining."
And what about Mexico, a con queso test case for the new fatness? "[Forty] percent of its 105 million people live in poverty. Yet two-thirds of men and women there are overweight or obese."
Let's not mince words: There's something worth celebrating about a world in which even poor people have so much to eat that they can become fat.
So how does this good news get translated into newspaperese?:
