Percentage of States that Reached Obesity Reduction Goal: Zero

Way back in the year 2000, officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services figured out that the nation whose health was in their care was being overrun by fat people. Where did they come from? What, other than fast food, did they want? Whatev. Those same officials came up with something called A Healthy People, 2010, a program whose goal, among others, was to reduce to 15 percent the proportion of adults who are obese. How are we doing? Not so good. The CDC reported this week that in 2007, not a single state achieved that goal, and overall, 25.6 percent of Americans over the age of 18 are obese.
Read it and weep.