Your statement is subjective, though. If statistics say the average adult weighs 9 pounds more than they did in the early 90s, and the average adult is older, why these subjective observations of fat ladies on oxygen stuffing crab to dictate health policy in this country, or fat butts at WalMart? We can’t base scary health declarations on subjective observation.
I can think of several really fat people I knew when I was a kid. I can also think of several really fat people I know now.
I can remember when a store would have 1, maybe 2, of those motorized carts for the handicapped. Today, Wal Mart has a sizeable parking area for those vehicles and every one of them is being used.
When I was in grade school, there was ONE overweight child in the whole school. ONE. These days there are 4-year-olds with weight problems and there are piggy children in every class. Every one.
Without a doubt, there are locations in the US that do not have an obese population. A trip to the mall in Bozeman, MT is not nearly as hard on the eyes and a trip to the mall in Monroe, LA.
I travel quite a bit. There are so many overly fat people in this country it is shameful. Call it entirely subjective ... call it what you will. I don't know what your agenda may be, but you are in serious denial about the obesity problem.