Re: Report: National strategy needed to fight fat

Penny said:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/27/obesity.study/index.html

Quoted message said:

Report: National strategy needed to fight fat
Story Highlights
Report: Obesity rates swelled over last year in 31 states; no states saw
decline

First time a state has more than 30 percent obese: Mississippi

Recommendation: National strategy needed to attack obesity

(CNN) -- Americans are already among the fattest people in the world and
they just keep packing on the pounds. A new report finds that obesity rates
have swelled during the last year in 31 states with not one state reporting
that its obesity rate shrank. And, for the first time, more than 30 percent
of residents in one state -- Mississippi -- are classified as obese.

Thanks, it is a good report.

Unfortunately, nothing will likely be done, unless someone can come up
with "Smoking Gun" documents as happened in the Tobacco industry. Most
of the breakthrough positive stuff happened there from civil lawsuits,
not US Government action, although some of that came later.