Saturday, November 3, 2007

What's the cause?

CNN has this amazing graphic which shows the increase in obesity in the US since 1984. It's pretty amazing to watch the map go from no color to red (>25% of the population with a BMI of over 30). What is the cause? Why? It really blows my mind (and illustrates the power of images over words, as the "obesity epidemic" is something I've been reading about for a while now, but it didn't hit me so dramatically until I saw this graphic).

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