[Grimmy]

Seeing as how the BMI is baseless bull and actually requires unhealthy low weight levels, most of this crap about obesity is right up there in accuracy and honesty with Hillary Wins!

[smokingfrog]

As long as I can still see my feet ... I’ll continue to eat, eat, eat...

[musicman]

"Nearly Half of America’s Overweight People
Don’t Realize They’re Overweight...."

[Ransomed]

The poorest people now tend to be the most obese. 100 years ago that would be the stuff of science fiction.

Freegards

[donna]

Maybe they just don't want to talk about it.

[Trillian]

Tonight on Smartline: I'm Okay, You're Too Fat.

[blam]

57% of Black females in the USA are obese.

[GreenLanternCorps]

I’m in shape. Round is a shape...

[dfwgator]

"Hi there. Are you a large person? Pleasantly plump? A little on the hefty side, perhaps? Well, let's face it: Are you FAT? When you go jogging, do you leave pot-holes? When you make love, do you have to give directions? At the zoo, do the elephants throw YOU peanuts? Do you look at a menu and say 'OK'? Well, now, you can eat all you want, because at Thornton Melon's "Tall & Fat" stores, we've got you covered. That's right. Fine woolen, and woolen-blend suits and sport coats, in all the larger sizes - husky, stout, extra-stout, and the new Hindenburg line. And for you ladies we have caftans, muumuus, and our own exclusive A-frame in all colors and patterns. Yes, we have miles and miles of fabric. So take it from me, Thornton Melon, if you want to look thin, you hang out with fat people."

[windcliff]

Lord Paddington: Fatty, lift up your chin. No no no, both of them!

[Jack Hammer]

A bit of input from the girls-should-look-like-boys crowd.

[Secret Agent Man]

The BMI system is complete garbage junk science based on a fatally flawed assumption.

It was put in place to create an overnight industry so that medical folks could get 11-12 million new patients instantly by reclassifying what “overweight” was.

[onyx]

The average American woman weighs 166.2 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As reddit recently pointed out, that's almost exactly as much as the average American man weighed in the early 1960s.

Men, you're not looking too hot in this scenario either. Over the same time period you gained nearly 30 pounds, from 166.3 in the 60s to 195.5 today. Doing the same comparison as above, today's American man weighs almost as much as 1.5 American women from the 1960s. At 195.5 pounds, put five American guys in a room and you've gathered roughly half a ton of manhood.

Overall weight gain since 1960 is slightly greater for women (18.5 percent) than for men (17.6 percent). And both sexes have gained roughly an inch in height over the same period, which accounts for some of that weight gain.

But story is mostly one of growing girth, and it basically boils down to three factors: we're eating less healthy food, we're eating more of it, and we're not moving around as much. According to a study published in 2012 in the journal BMC Public Health, Americans are now the world's third-heaviest people, behind only the Pacific island nations of Tonga and Micronesia.

The average American is 33 pounds heavier than the average Frenchman, 40 pounds heavier than the average Japanese citizen, and a whopping 70 pounds heavier than the average citizen of Bangladesh. To add up to one ton of total mass, it takes 20 Bangladeshis but only 12.2 Americans.

Together, the world's adult human beings added up to 287 million tons of biomass in 2005, according to the BMC Public Health study. But if every country had the same weight distribution as the U.S., the world would be 58 million tons fatter, an increase of 20 percent.

The study concludes that "tackling population fatness may be critical to world food security and ecological sustainability." And as with so many of the world's problems, the solutions start at home -- on the bathroom scale in this case. But boy, those donuts sure do look delicious.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest's Xtreme Eating Awards went to nine "winning" chain restaurant meals especially high in calories, fat, sugar and salt. The Cheesecake Factory got three of them.

[Leep]

It’s the cookie cutter world we live in. Hmmm...cookies.

[MadIsh32]

Lack of responsibility by Americans.

Most Americans are too lazy to move and grow their own plants, and not smart enough to cook their own food

[RooRoobird20]

..............does this article include the FLOTUS, who at this point appears to be twice the girth of her husband? (”I see fat people......they don’t know they’re fat....”)