Heavy? Your neighborhood may be to blame

It may be. But it is not. It is the fact that you are calorically irresponsible.

"It could be your neighborhood that's making you fat — or keeping you slender.

A new study found that the year your neighborhood was built may be just as important as diet and exercise for shedding pounds. Those who live in neighborhoods built before 1950 are trimmer than their counterparts who reside in more modern communities, the study reported."

Proof?

"Amy Crook, a 34-year-old freelance graphic designer, gained 30 pounds over the course of two years after she moved to a sprawling neighborhood in Bowie, Md., in 2005. 'There was nothing to walk to,' said Crook, who noted that she drove everywhere, even to the grocery store two blocks away because there were no sidewalks."

Two blocks to the store and she could not walk.

Poor baby could not walk along the curb.

Poor baby had to put on 30 pounds in 2 years.

Poor baby had to overconsume and store 105,000 Calories on her can't walk along the curb for two blocks body if she added the 30 pounds as fat (a not unreasonable assumption because she is not complaining of getting bodybuilder buff).

Of course, walking 1/2 mile or two blocks in 2 directions, burns an average of 50 Calories which if she went grocery shopping daily would only have burned off 36,550 Calories in two years assuming one year was a leap year and does not account for the remaining 68,450 Calories she added to her body.

And these 68,450 Calories come from the poor fat baby overeating about 94 Calories per day everyday, assuming again that one year was a leap year.

Little piggie could not keep her fat piehole from swallowing those just-under 100 Calories.

This is terrible.

The only reasonable response to this conclusive "proof" is to rebuild all neighborhoods to the style of the 1950's, not to expect people to otherwise be calorically responsible.

After all, it is everybody else's fault when you are fat.