Great article about the "obesity epidemic"

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And not only because it uses my favorite example of confusing correlation with causation:

Killing Turkeys Causes Winter by Sandy Szwarc

(Those of you participating in the current LJ fat flame war, feel free to use this as ammo.)

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This:

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/72/5/1074/T2

has a description of the ways in which obesity has been defined since 1942. In my reply to sistercoyote, I posted evidence of a trend which uses a consistent definition, and indicates that a higher proportion of US adults have bme>30 now, than they did 30 years ago.