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Why are we so fat?
Put boldly like this as the title to the article, this is close to being politically incorrect. We are not supposed to talk about people who are overweight. This intrudes into their privacy. We are being discriminatory in some way. Yet, when you come to the hard statistics collected by the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there is absolutely no doubt about the national trend. The CDC has been producing the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys for decades. It's the CDC's way of keeping its finger on the pulse of the average American. The first study was done almost sixty years ago. At that time, about one quarter of all Americans were overweight, i.e. had a Body Mass Index of more than 27. This was the steady result as time passed until the Survey results came in the 1980's. Suddenly, one third of the population was overweight. In just ten years, millions of Americans switched their eating habits from moderate to excessive. If you could be persuaded to think of this as being lik
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