Friday, July 5, 2013

Growth of Obesity in the US: an Animated GIF

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fairly self-explanatory.  More than a third of adults are now obese in this country (and over half are overweight, meaning that for the first time, over half of Americans respond to the term "Lardface").  Could this be in part because we are eating 60% more added oil and 40% more added sugar than we were 60 years ago