A helpful hint on the obesity epidemic

 Any health professional will tell you that a  walking habit does much to prevent obesity. But  our cities and our suburbs are hardly walker-friendly. Let a stranger take a walk in a modern suburban neighborhood and soon -what a coincidence - a police car will be checking him out.  For " regressive tendencies "? Recall the Ray Bradbury story " The Pedestrian " ?

            I think one factor that greatly discourages the joy of walking in  America is a dearth of public restrooms. Even in the heart of a big city, with visitors everywhere, you read hostile signs : " NO PUBLIC RESTROOM ".

       Perhaps some profound psychiatrist-sociologist- can elaborate an explanation for this strange denial of body functions. But I simply  suspect there is little " make -a-buck " -here. Ashley Montagu commented on this lack of public restrooms  in one of his essays on the American Way of Life .  Can we at least solve THIS problem ?