In reply to Andy Johnson:
> That's a horrifying statistic.
You have to visit Florida to really appreciate it.
Morbid obesity is so normalised in young adults that many restaurants have special toilets with reinforced bowls and oversized seats for the severely obese, and when a party with a severely obese person is shown to their table, the obese one remains standing and their chair is silently replaced with a wider, reinforced chair. You see people in their 20s with zimmer frames due to obesity, and many have to sleep with oxygen lest the weight of flab in their necks choke them to death at night. These were observations from an enforced family holiday in 1995 when I was a minor. I haven’t been back since.
Go to California - big cities, regional non-tourist towns, mountain areas - and you’ll not see morbid obesity. So the statistics DoR gave are a national average; but its concentrated largely in the south eastern states. Which also have large sun-seeking retirement populations...