Weekly Reading, November 4nd, 2008

This week I picked up a People magazine and opened to a random article. The article I opened to is titled "Fattened Up For Football." This article is all about how high school students eat enormous amounts of food to become big and be chosen for the football team. The suddenly popular "trend to be big" is taking over the minds of football players around the nation. Last year a survey was conducted with 3600 high school linemen and 45% were found to be overweight for their age group. Even though being big may be an advantage while these players actually play football, when they stop it becomes even more of a health risk. They no longer are motivated to workout and they continue eating food in massive quantities that make them even larger than before. This is what I learned from this article.