The Economy is Trying to Make Me Fat

Erza Klein, blogging from his new home at the Washington Post, has a chart that explains my continuing failure to become svelte. Basically, the cost of fresh fruits and vegetables keeps going up over time, while the price of beer and butter actually goes down. So see, vast economic forces are standing in the way of my transforming into the Hugh Jackman-as-Wolverine-type body that I know is my destiny.