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Real battle is with our minds
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He was 47 years old. He was gentlemanly; beautifully spoken;
jovial; overweight in a jolly way. I really couldn’t imagine him slumped in
his living room just two days later. I couldn’t imagine the grieving wife
and shocked girl child next to her.
I was thinking of the steady stream of jokes he was telling
to cut the tedium of a long graduation ceremony in central Trinidad of
11-year-olds who were still waiting for their results. He was the head of
the PTA, but kept slipping into daddy mode, gesticulating above the noise,
that there was his 11-year-old daughter, there she was. Three days later,
his wife called. He was dead. As I spoke to his grieving widow, heard the
mixture of steely stoicism and despair in her voice, I remembered a
statistic: about two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight,
and almost one-third are obese.
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Category:
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Date:
19 Jul 09
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