Slimming Your Brain, Rating The Months, Etc.

To judge by the epidemic of weight gain, Americans are all too comfortable about putting on the pounds. In the abstract, though, they still love the idea of being slim and fear the prospect of getting fat (or fatter). In a poll conducted for Fitness magazine, 63 percent of women and 55 percent of men said they’d “rather be poor and have no weight to lose than be rich but significantly overweight.” Similarly, 58 percent of women and 54 percent of men said they’d rather lose their job than gain 75 pounds.