[JustaDumbBlonde]

With all due respect to you, I don't care what you think of my statement. When you can go out on a Saturday and see hundreds, if not thousands, of people and 1 in 10 are normal sized, there is a problem.

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.

[Judith Anne]

I agree with you. But, pay no attention to me. On another thread I admitted that I am bigoted against fat people. *sigh*

[Marie2]

I don’t have an agenda, I just think there is a lot of scare mongering over the obesity epidemic and I am tired of the thought control police and the nanny state using it as an excuse to try to control the markets and our behavior.

Well, I guess that’s an agenda.

So you’re saying the actually statistics about an average 9 pound weight gain and an aging population don’t count because your personal observances are different?