The picture speaks for itself, but let me add, these are two teen age girls are morbidly obese. To whomever thinks this is not a problem, look at the Lucky Charms and whole milk. I understand PCness, but America, stop tippy-toeing around this, you are teaching this to your kids. It needs to be said out loud, we are fat. We need to change the culture. You don't think these girls are showing signs of diabetes. Insurance companies, get out now, because in ten years when these kids hit the system, you will be broke, and I don't want to pay for them. Let's make a change, Today. Let's start eating to live , and not live to eat.
Mike, I agree. We are in denial about how bad this really is and how fast this has hit us. I encourage everyone to go to http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html#baseline and play with the map in the middle of the page by clicking through the years. Prior to 1997 there was not a single state with an obesity rate greater than 20% of its population.
ReplyDelete10 years later in 2007 only 1 state has less than 20% obese and in 3 states 30% of the population is obese.
The definition of obesity did not change during this time. We are bigger.
(The CDC did change its definition in 2011).