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In the chowhounding season that begins on Thanksgiving and runs through New Year’s Eve, consumers will rebut the metaphorical claim that the economy has everybody “tightening their belts.” A Gallup poll fielded in the middle of last month finds excessive weight continues to beset many Americans. Given their girth, it wouldn’t take much unmetaphorical belt-tightening before people started passing out en masse.
The survey found female respondents weighing in at an average of 160 pounds, up from 153 pounds in 2001 — “a gain of nearly a pound a year,” as Gallup tactlessly notes in its analysis of the data.
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