I am fat. Not the politically correct “overweight” - just
plain fat. Apparently, I am not alone in this condition. A quick perusal of the
Internet reveals staggering statistics about how fat our nation has become (but
I won’t bore you with the numbers). Suffice it to say that the “diseases of prosperity”
(high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease) threaten to send a significant number
of us to an early grave.
A myriad of sources (backed, of course, by official scientific research studies) claim that this is because we eat too much fat (like cookies!) and not enough of the good stuff like high fiber foods (you know, the stuff that resembles the texture of cardboard) and veggies (AKA-rabbit food).
Fair enough. But do we really need all of those statistics to tell us what the Cookie Monster has been showing us since we could grasp a cookie in our chubby little paws?
What did Cookie Monster show us?
Simply this:
OVERINDULGENCE = FAT.
Cookie Monster loves his cookies.
Cookie Monster is rather rotund.
This is not exactly rocket science.
Perhaps if we start turning blue and growing fur we will finally get the message.
I think I’ll go have a cookie (or two).
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