Everybody Else

"I can't eat the same food everybody else can or I gain weight"

You hear it all the time right?

But the majority of people in this country are fat! The truth is, this silent majority of people that can eat Micky D's and Krispey Kreme everyday and not get fat don't exist.

Do people REALLY think that "everybody else" can eat all these foods and not get fat, despite myriad evidence to the contrary in every city of the USA? It seems so obvious but I'd be lieing if I said that I didn't fall victim to this mindset in the past too.

Does the general populace really, genuinely think that everybody else can get away with eating crap and that they're somehow disadvantaged? Surely there's some kind of deep psychological explanation here.