"Hands off that second cookie, Jimmy! Think of the bulging Armenians!"

So writes Annie Gottlieb at Ambivablog at the conclusion of a post on the expanding worldwide pandemic of obesity.

(Yes, I meant the adjective in the preceding sentence to be a bad pun.)

And by the way, Gottlieb's post hit me below the belt (and above), because I read it while biting into a massive chocolate chip cookie as my luncheon topper. (In self-defense, I had already broken the cookie in two, resolving only to eat half of it! I have added incentive to keep that resolve now.)

Read all of Gottlieb's post.

Bucking this trend has been my God-blogging buddy, John Schroeder, who wrote briefly yesterday about resisting his cravings...and losing 200-pounds, thus becoming one svelte environmental consultant! (Can males be described as svelte? I hope so.)