Fat: A Passing Thought

It has been said that it is the fat man and the fat woman who survive the difficult times.

When a fat man and a thin man went on a long ocean voyage, it was the fat man who returned ... looking thin.

It was the woman who began the period of starvation fat, who survived.

It came to be that when a person was to be sent into an unknown danger, he was first fattened.

Could there be a racial sense of coming adversity? Are we fattening-up to get through difficult times?