Girth And Growth

Congress weighs the sprawl-induced fat problem.

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July 31, 2003, 11:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Trimming America's expanding waistline is going to be harder than anybody thought. Just ask doctors who have spent years trying to get patients to use their muscles and simply get moving. They say that as soon as they have persuaded their charges to finally get off their couches they're sitting right back down again -- behind the wheel of a car. Our civilization encourages vehicles, not people, to move.

Thanks to Keith Schneider

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