Fat on Marketplace?

Of all the places I expected my Google News Alert to let me know Marilyn Wann’s name had appeared, I confess Marketplace wasn’t one of them. I only get to listen to NPR early in the mornings while driving with the spousal unit, so when she mentioned that Marketplace had done a piece on obesity I didn’t really think much of it. Yesterday, though, I got the alert in my inbox. The piece - which you can listen to or read the text of - is mostly fatphobic, but Wann does get some good comments included. Some of the, er, non-Wannian highlights?

And Mancuso’s saving cash on her car.

MANCUSO: I kept going through tires. And I’m like, why am I going through so many sets of tires? It’s a brand new car. They’re like, well, it’s your weight. So now that I’m smaller, I don’t have to go through so many sets of tires.

Of course! You know, now that I think of it, the power steering fluid on our car has a leak… must be Obesity!