Survival of the Fattest

Experts are now saying that obesity will kill more people than all cancers combined. An amazing 97 million Americans are overweight (self-control-challenged). Hundreds of thousands in the U.S. will die this year because they are obese or are on their way there. A study looked at over a quarter of a million U.S. children, and they found that nearly one in five, aged between 7-13 years, were classified as “overweight.” That means that “by the year 2040, for the first time ever in our species our life expectancy is expected to drop.” Experts are becoming very concerned. I can’t figure evolution believers out. Why the worry? Evolution will make sure that the species of fat kids have fat kids, who will have fat kids, and each of them will evolve fatter veins to carry more fat through the blood to a fatter heart. It will make sure that they will have fat-tolerant livers, fat-tolerant colons and fat-tolerant gall bladders, much larger knees to take the greater weight, and it will all be worked out by the much evolved and chubby brain in our fat heads. So, a quiet word to those of the species who are becoming worried that we are not going to survive. Keep believing. Evolution has taken millions of years to bring Homo sapiens this far, and it will make sure that everything will get sorted out, in time.