Too Fat or Too Thin: Where to Begin

I was sitting in a doctor's office some time ago and noticed a cartoon on the wall. It was a political cartoon that had an obese American or Brit next to an emaciated African. The caption with the cartoon said something like: "A common issue: the Food Crisis." Starvation, malnutrition, and obesity in the same world is a peculiar and embarrassing situation. What is less important but, more peculiar is that any western developed country would have to make a law discouraging promotion of thinness. It happened, in France. French lawmakers have had enough of looking at models with their ribs showing so they passed a law to discourage the fashion industry from promoting thinness.

I think I have found a perfect solution for law breakers in France: send them to Uruguay. Recently, Uruguay smashed the previous world record by 4 tons for the world's largest barbecue. Uruguay barbecued 26,400 lbs of beef! Texans, better take notice. You are not the barbecue destination any more. That may be a bit overstated. Texas does not hold the world record for the largest barbecue. That is odd news.

Confusing world we live in where France has to pass a law against thinness, Uruguay is proud of its world record barbecue and still somewhere in the world someone is starving to death right now and someone else is dying from complications of obesity.

Sources:
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080415-france-thinness.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1331282920080415