The Average American Diet

Tonight at the grocery store I witnessed a disturbing sight: an extremely overweight man was piling 12-packs of various soda into his cart. That was bad enough, but in the cart sat an average-weight child who looked to be about five years old. I watched the man sadly as he added Dr. Pepper and Pepsi  to the Mountain Dew in the cart, and I couldn’t help wondering, how long would this stockpile of soda last them? Was this their weekly haul? How much did he allow his young child to drink? What kind of habits was this child learning? Would he become as overweight as this father? I wanted to pull the soda from his cart, but of course I did nothing, said nothing. I’m not in the habit of criticizing total strangers.