During the past 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States. In 2009, only Colorado and the District of Columbia had a prevalence of obesity less than 20%. Thirty-three states had a prevalence equal to or greater than 25%; nine of these states (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia) had a prevalence of obesity equal to or greater than 30%.

Wow. Check out the map at the link to see how dramatically it has changed over 20 years, plus some startling figures about the rise of diabetes.

http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html

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Revenge is sweet... Revenge is best served cold... Revenge is ice cream.

Just getting ready for the ice age. Packin' on hybernatin' weight.

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Good job guys! We did it! Keep eating! More! more! more! Go man, go!

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"Counting all the assholes in the room, I'm definitely not alone!" ~ Michael Poulsen, Volbeat, Still Standing.

Well, the bar they set for "obese" is pretty low, but regardless...

USA!
USA!
USA!

EDIT:
Hey...white people in California aren't that bad!

White non-Hispanic



I must say this is pretty accurate...the most likely obese demographic I see is Hispanic...unfortunately mostly children.
Hispanic



That's a 5-15% jump by race...pass the churizo please...and a churro to scoop my ice cream.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

Haha St. Lawrence County is one of the worst in NY. It's all them fat Clarkson girls, lol.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

We're all just a bunch of fatties.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

I'm a hot fattie

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mechaphil

The standard for obese is retarded. I could be a 200 pound guy and be considered obese yet if I wasn't actually fat I am not obese, just muscular.

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If beer wasn't so damn tasty I'd be on the cover of Fitness I tells ya

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Hold my beer and watch this...

"You're lucky this stuff don't work.."

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"Let's just trap Sekera in the caverns underneath HSBC arena." -BlueandYellow

Reporter: "Steve, you guys now lead the league in defensive scoring."
Montador: "It's probably because of how good-looking we are."

I'm at the low end of 'normal.' 5'11", 142 pounds, weighed myself yesterday.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

Our least state now is fatter than our fattest state ten years ago.

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The Taliban are fattening us up before they go full war on us.

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"Call a cop he robbed Delmore blind!!!"
Rick Jeanerette after Marty Biron's diving save back in 2000.

"I'm going to go to the spa and have a hot tub and massage and relax," Miller said. "That's it, and it's back to work tomorrow." Ryan Miller after clinching the North East division.

Yay for fatness!

BMI is pretty stupid, though. By default, men would have higher BMIs than women, for example. Still... I did not see one obese Russian person the entire three weeks I was in Russia in May. There were a few obese people here and there, but they were North American tourists every time.

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

I am a healthy 6 foot 1 145 and I think of myself as being small, not in the healthy BMI place.

If I was 180 which I'd like to be I would be considered healthy, but if I went to 190 I would be overweight even if all I want to to do is be a good size and strength.

Also 228 is obese for 6'1 and you can be 221 and not be obese, just huge in muscle.

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Someone's insecure

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

Before they took all the pop and crap out of the vending machines at my school, students would come in, eat spicy cheetoos and dr. pepper for breakfast. Then they'd eat fries or pizza for lunch. One of the kids told me the only "healthy" food they had was salad (and it was always half frozen...from the other day) and spoiled tasting yogert.

People bitch and whine about how our kids are too fat, but then they feed them crap at lunch to cut costs.

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"Oh honey, I would but...I don't want to" ~ Karen Walker

The only reason I don't work out is I'm lazy.

I did gain ten pounds by playing hockey and skating though

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Really? I lost almost ten pounds from the constant skating.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

yeah, i'm at about 6 feet, 146 pounds. i wish i didn't weigh as much for having pretty much no muscle mass, but it happens.

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young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. (guy debord)