Lots of stuff in the news

I'm back at work and I went away for the weekend, so I've missed a lot of stories. Everytime I seem to turn around, there's another one. It's a good mix of positive and negative, but a lot of the negative stuff keeps me angry all the same.

In the SMH this weekend, Adele Horin claims that the lean are now a minority in Australia. The sound results she's based this claim on: her observations on a trip to Wet 'n' Wild. Sadly, we've seen this sort of hand wringing over the obesity crisis ten times over. Her claim is that we are becoming just like America in the obesity stakes, we are battling a culture of fast food and being sedentary, but of course losing weight is easier for the middle class. She doesn't address the Coca colonisation that has made Australia culturally similar to the US, the work demands on our time, or ways to improve nutritional and activity outcomes for the working and welfare classes. Just more hand wringing and asking for government help. Do we really want to the nanny state to help us lose weight?