Geez. Someone needs to shout this from the rooftops, or maybe as commercials that run during Oprah and American Idol. Something needs to be done one way or another – the link is to an article on the New York Times website about how obesity will soon eclipse smoking as the number 1 cause of death in the US. It would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic – richest country in the world turns into a bunch of disease-ridden lard asses, funeral at 11. I’m starting to think we should have sin taxes for nutritionally useless foods in the same way that we have them on cigarettes – if my tax dollars have to subsidize your triple bypass because you didn’t have enough sense to stop gorging on super-sized ‘value’ meals, it’s time for you to start paying for the privilege of destroying yourself.