Obesity infographic

A reader sent a link to this graphic after reading this story here on MANN. More grist for the mill. Being fat incurs greater health care costs than smoking and drinking *combined*.

Let's call it what it is, guys: fat. That's what it is. You can say "obese" or "overweight", but when people see a fat person of either sex, they simply say to themselves: "fat". That's the reality. Political correctness insists on "obesity", but everyone knows a duck when he sees one-- and he calls it a duck. And the longer a person stays fat, the avoidably shorter their lifespan gets and their quality of life just continues to drop. And the thing is, it's so avoidable. It's the one thing people well and truly have substantial control over: how much they eat and how much exercise they get. It's just a matter of making the right choice, that's all.