"Picky Eating" and Fats A family of planetoids sat near my family as we ate our (relatively healthy) food at the mall over the weekend. These things were massive. They were so big that the son (?), who was the only relatively normal-sized one of the group, was unable to fit at the table (meant for four people, only fit three) and had to sit at a different table. As usual, they were loud and obnoxious, and they were talking about food. Specifically, how "gross" various foods are. They were talking about people they knew who would eat squash, which is just so "mushy;" rare beef, which is "disgusting;" they don't understand "who would want to eat vegetables every day." It was astounding, but fit a pattern that I have observed: fats are picky eaters. Picky eaters are fat. What's up with that? Is it a form of mental retardation, where they get stuck with the eating habits of a three year old? Speaking of which, on this same trip I happened to get behind a fat mother (?) and daughter (?) on the escalator. I would have estimated the daughter to be mid-teens, but with fats, who knows? The weird thing is, the "daughter" was speaking with a really high pitched sort of "not all there" voice. Fine. Two questions: