Article: A craving for fat as the Lean Machine gets the measure of my midriff crisis

FAT is not a feminist issue; it is an aesthetic and medical one. The fate of the fat is, you see, not good. Heavy people die younger than light ones. They contract more diseases, puff and pant, break the fork lift trucks necessary to hoist them into taxis more often. They are, quite literally, a waste of space. And, of course, most of them look bad as well.

The problem is, I am no sylph-like figure myself, though at six and a bit feet I have managed to hide my various bulges for years. Black clothes help, and if the chins have engorged marginally, well, there is always the last resort of the multiple-chinned man, the

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