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Trevor Homer is our guest blogger during the week of July 16th. If you have any questions for Trevor Homer, add a comment to any of his posts. Here is some brief information about The Book of Origins:

Everything—from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)—has an origin, but often it’s not what we expect. A few things you may not have known

• Gandhi was married at age thirteen!
• Chinese fortune cookies are an American invention and were not eaten in China until the 1990s when they were advertised as “Genuine American Fortune Cookies.”
• Bayer lost the trademark for aspirin (which they had held since 1897) as part of the reparations Germany was forced to pay after World War I.
• The original idea for the electric chair came from an American dentist.

For aspiring mindblowers and wanna-be know-it-alls, The Book of Origins is a treasure trove of trivia and fascinating facts guaranteed to entertain and enlighten.

About Trevor Homer

Trevor Homer was born and educated in the Black Country and is a former British Amateur Champion golfer. He represented England seventeen times, winning the European Team Championship in 1973, and Great Britain and Northern Ireland eleven times.

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A patient asked me yesterday how did we get so fat as a nation. He was overweight and his family was too and he had come in at a young age of 42 for high blood pressure.

It seems as though everyone has the answers to this question, yet we are still getting fatter. So what is the answer? I believe that it is very complex and the reason we have gotten fatter as a nation does not have just one answer.

We are fatter because:

• We eat too much
• We don’t cook at home
• We do whatever is fastest and easiest- so we don’t take the stairs, we use the elevator etc.
• Our kids watch too much TV and video games.
• If we are not running around like chickens with our heads cut off, then we are too tired to do anything
• We shop for convenience foods, because they are fast and easy.
• We don’t make the time for ourselves.