"This fall, the University of Iowa canceled its annual corn-eating contest, held the week of the Iowa-Iowa State football game. Many saw the contest as a fun nod to the state's hallmark crop, but Phillip Jones, Iowa's vice president of student services, viewed it as an act of gluttony.
'It was something I thought was reasonable based on the data and stories I've seen about obesity and the proportion of people who are overweight,' Jones said. 'I don't know ... if it is dangerous, but it was a symbolic gesture to get people to address changes in our lifestyle.'"
Mr. Jones is the guy in the center two to the left of Big Bird (from our perspective).
Seems as if he could stand to lose a few pounds to set an example for his students.
"Last year, organizers of the World Pie Eating Championship in Wigan, England, gave in to pressure from health advocates and cut back on contestants' consumption.Personally, I have yet to see data that these people are role models for the fat folk clogging our world. Just as I have yet to see good data that models cause substantial and significant numbers of people to get thin. If they did, why is there an overfat problem?Competitors converged on the northwestern English town for 15 years to see who could eat the most meat pies in three minutes. But organizers changed the rules in 2006, presenting the award to the person who could eat a single meat pie in the fastest time. They also added a vegetarian category."
Point is, we are making people go away because they allegedly make fatties feel bad.
It is always easier to blame others than point the finger at ourselves.
"Janus said criticism of his sport demonstrates that people misunderstand the nation's obesity problem.'Most of us are pretty thin and in pretty good shape. To say we're bad examples is misleading,' the 5-foot-10, 165-pound Janus said."
This competitor (Janus) has a BMI of 23.7
That would be a good start.
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