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Can America have too many television shows about obesity? Not with an obesity rate of 33 percent

Obesity means big business, and I don’t mean just the amount of food it takes to support the overeaters of the world. I am talking about the increase in the cost of medical insurance; the doctor, hospital and prescription bills it generates; the increase in disability payments to workers no longer able to be part of the work force. And then there is the diet and fitness industry, which can suck you dry on the promise of weight loss

The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled their newest reports on obesity and the news is not good. In fact, the prevalence of obesity increased in adults at all income and education levels between the years 2007 and 2008 and more 33% adults and 17% of our children are now considered obese. read more

There are a lot of advertising dollars being spent trying to sway us, and our children, to buy high-sugar cereals. Saturday morning cartoons are loaded with them

As waistlines grow in America, so do they in our European counterparts.