Hello, Mamas.

Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years ago, being a plump fella or a big girl was, in contrast to today's booty standards, a sign of aristocracy, of wealth.

It wasn't seen as glutinous to be big.

It was almost like, how big can I get with all my money.

If you were a peasant, the peasant class and like like pre-industrialized England,

you were obviously very thin. You were eating gruel. You were eating crumbs off of like the floor.

But if you were in the ruling class, the aristocracy, you were very big because you had so much, such an abundance of food and wealth.

And that was the beauty standard.

You look at the beauty standards now.

And I don't even have to elaborate further.

I'm sure thousands of images are going past your face of extremely thin people being like

American Eagle.

I'm not even going to make a Sydney Sweeney joke.

Anyways, anyways.

How do we get here? Why does suddenly being healthy? Let me just not let's start even let's take the thin out of the equation.

Let's just say being what is perceived as healthy. Why does that feel so Republican nowadays? Am I the only one that feels a little crazy that it feels Republican to be in shape?

Here's the thing. I just got back from a trip to Japan. And any time that I leave the U.S., there is the elephant in the room.

Let me not say the elephant in the room, but it's a common, maybe stereotype that Americans are a little

bit bigger than their counterparts in Europe and in Japan. And what does that, what does that,

what does that mean? Yes, Americans are on average more unhealthy than people that live in Japan, people that live in Europe.

But it is a striking contrast because you see a lot less people who are deemed like overweight

in countries that aren't the U.S.

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