Obesity Overtakes Smoking as Health Burden in US

It has got to be genetic.

"The morbidity-mortality curves for smoking and obesity in the US have crossed as the latter appears to have become the greater health threat, at least as measured by quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) lost, suggests an analysis published online January 5, 2010 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The prevalence of smoking the US declined 18.5% from 1993 to 2008, with most of the loss occurring in the past six years; during the same period, the proportion of obese people (body-mass index >30 kg/m2) rose by a steady 85%, according to the analysis by Dr Haomiao Jia (Columbia University, New York, NY) and Dr Erica I Lubetkin (City College of New York, NY), slated for the journal's February 2010 issue."

I mean, what else can explain the 85% increase in six years?

Clearly that is why we are seeing other genetic changes resulting in 85% increases in people with wings and fins, three nostrils and one eye smack dab in the middle of the forehead.

Yep, it has got to be genetic.