"The Biggest Generation"

I borrowed that title from a movie produced to address the child obesity epidemic in this country. It's clever, but sad. It sounds better than "Generation X," at least.

Well, this is scary stuff. Right from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):

If you don't know where you land in the Body Mass Index (BMI), do yourself a favor and find out here.

This is what the country looked like back in 1985:

US adult obesity rates stand in the neighborhood of 20-30% and 60% of Americans are now overweight or obese. If your BMI is 25 or higher, you are overweight. If it's 30 or higher, then you're obese. Here's a wakeup call: if you are 6-feet tall, then weighing 185 lbs or more renders you overweight.