How to Solve Obesity With the Stroke of a Pen
Obesity is a national problem that costs us billions, and I know how to solve it!

My wife and I went out to dinner this evening to a restaurant we like, situated on the shore of a local lake. When we got to this restaurant, there was already a large crowd. We were given the choice of being seated inside, outside, or first available. Spying an open booth in the bar area, I asked if it was open. The hostess said that it was indeed and we immediately decided to sit there rather than wait. How glad we were that we made that choice.
It was just starting to sprinkle rain as I walked into the restaurant from where I had parked our car, but I didn’t think much of it. Weather comes and goes here in Oklahoma as quickly as Trump changes his mind about personnel and policy positions. We had just gotten our appetizer when suddenly all hell broke loose outside. Rain started coming down in buckets, lashed by 70 mile per hour winds. It got so bad you could not see the lake just outside the window, let alone the highway that passed nearby or the cars on it.
Those who had chosen to sit outside came streaming into the restaurant to take shelter. Most saved their drinks in the process and once in out of the weather carried on with their evening, everyone happy to have a new story to tell. My wife and I were having fun talking about how if we had stayed home we would have missed it all. It was fun, kind of an event!
A little while later, as people were still coming in, my wife noticed a lady walking by and said to me that it was not a good day to be wearing white. The woman’s white blouse was soaked through and therefore now transparent. This got me to thinking.
Obesity is a national health problem, we hear it all the time. According to Wikipedia, obesity rates in the United States are among the highest in the world, where here two out of every three people are considered overweight or obese. Obesity accounts for an additional $1,429 in medical expenses per obese person annually. While we are in the throes of a great healthcare debate, this is a big deal!
And I know how to fix it!
All we need to do is create one little law. We need to make it a law that six times a year, one day every two months, every man, woman, and child in America must go naked. National Go Out Naked Day! You can’t stay home, you have to do whatever you normally would do on that day…naked.
- Go to work naked.
- Go to school naked.
- Go to church naked.
- Go shopping naked.
- Go to court naked.
- Go to the mall naked.
- Go walk the dog naked.
Everyone, on the same day, is naked all day, all at the same time.
You may think I am joking, but I am not sure I am. Get over the silliness of it and consider the benefits.
I am not a small guy. I qualify for the obese label myself. I am working on it but if I knew two months from now I was going to have to go out into the world in my birthday suit, I would be even more highly motivated to lose weight because of it. And, since this day comes around every two months, I would be equally motivated to keep losing weight and keep it off.

But it’s not just weight. In more ways than one clothes cover a multitude of sins!
On the days we are all naked perhaps we will start to see how much alike we are in the ways that matter. Strip away the things we put on ourselves to stand out and individualize ourselves, and we might find out how special we really are by simply being ourselves rather than some marketing person’s idea of who we should be.
I mean just think about it; how fancy is that man or woman going to look climbing out of their fancy luxury car bare assed naked? You can’t tell me someone getting out of an expensive car, even if it’s a Bugatti Chiron, would look all that cool dragging their wedding tackle all over the seat behind them as they did!

I am sure there are many other benefits of National Go Out Naked Day that I have not yet thought of, I mean I just had this idea! But even if there are not, isn’t living longer, saving healthcare dollars, helping everyone be healthier and happier worth six days a year?