Hard to argue with him. I know it's hard to hear, but take a walk in a crowded location.
Go to any bowling alley anywhere in the country. Walk through a mall on a Saturday. Go to a pro football game. We are mostly at least twenty pounds overweight.
I've found that if you go to a city with lots of pedestrians and public transportation, such as Washington DC or Manhattan, you see lots less obese people than, say, Dallas or Houston, where less walking and more driving is common.
I'd rather use my Rascal....
Sure, we all see overweight people in a crowd. But we also see very thin people in a crowd, and lots of people in between. Some might even conclude that we're far to obsessed with thinness these days, especially watching "stars" like Calista Flockhart, numerous models, and checking out the ranks of those in treatment for bulemia and other eating disorders.