Strawberries

Yesterday at the store I saw strawberries for $12/basket. Now seriously, who on earth would spend $12 on strawberries except maybe a hormone-crazed pregnant person who, like, NEEDED those strawberries?? Anyone else was just not looking at price tags yesterday. (And I'm not knocking hormone-crazed pregnant people -- I too had cravings but could never be friends with anyone who craved anything as harmless as strawberries. I mean, when there's nacho cheese and french fries and 43 lbs to gain??!)

Speaking of weight gain, Sonja and I were noticing that there seemed to be a lot more obese people in the UK than in Sweden. Not surprising, really, because if YOU were paying $12 for strawberries and $20/lb for chicken and everything had dill in it would YOU be overweight? No, no, now I'm just being snarky (grumble grumble).

Anyway, a quick data search confirms that, among women in 2002 anyway, the percentage of obese women in the UK was 21% compared to 10% in Sweden. And just guess which ladies have the lowest incidence of obesity in Europe at 6%? Hint: they eat Brie and don't exercise.

P.S. The rate of obesity of women in the U.S. in 2002 was 38%. I think the Republicans are behind it. Call Michael Moore!!