Volume > Issue > Note List > The Weight of the World

The Weight of the World

When VandenBurg wrote about the “last” acceptable prejudice, he didn’t realize how final the situation is. Hold on to your love handles, folks: Things are about to get heavy — real heavy!

Evidently, overweight kids are holding more than Twinkies and Cheetos in their chubby paws — they also hold the fate of the world! “Children…are…heavier now than they were even 10 years ago,” says Naomi Neufield, Director of KidShape, a nonprofit weight-loss program in Los Angeles, quoted in “Too Heavy, Too Young,” an article in Time magazine (Jan. 21, 2002). “We can’t even imagine the medical costs we will be seeing in the future. It feels like Armageddon.”

Armageddon?

Enjoyed reading this?

READ MORE! REGISTER TODAY

SUBSCRIBE

You May Also Enjoy

Christian/Jewish Marriages: Recipes for Disaster

The divorce rate for couples in mixed marriages spikes in the second five years of marriage, especially with the advent of children.

The Weaker Sex

Many Catholics disfigure pronouns so as to support the fragile female and her vulnerability to the dread Generic Masculine.

New Oxford Notes: June 2017

All That You Can Be... Return of the Gnostic Jesuits