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How Being Overweight Became the Norm

By AAN Staff
march 26, 2004  03:55 pm
How Being Overweight Became the Norm
Think you're too fat? You can always blame Richard M. Nixon. By expanding farm subsidies and loosening regulations while he was president, Nixon "sowed the seeds that would end humanity's long war against hunger, making food cheap and plentiful to all Americans," Jim Duncan writes. "For that we now lay upon his grave the blame for the nation's epidemic obesity." The Pointblank cover story includes interviews with two women back in prison for using meth to lose the weight gained during a previous incarceration.