Obesity State By State

We can all thank The USAToday for America's love of infographics.

Ah, Colorado. Light blue, through and through.

We can probably thank them in some way, too, for America's obesity epidemic. Seriously, the USAToday is like the fast food of news. Consumption– it's not just for breakfast anymore.

That might sound whiny, but the numbers bear this out. If you take a look at the whole graphic, you can see a quick, steady move toward not moving. And it's nation-wide (no pun intended). No one escapes it.

So, this is way bigger (again, no pun) than just bitching about how McDonald's is making us, as a nation, fat. Because it's not that.

I think there's a culture of obesity that's growing (Jeez!) in America. Hear me out, because it only sounds strange due to it being a new thing that people don't quite recognize. Same as tattoo culture in the 80's; look how acceptable it is now.

So, who are the leaders of obesity culture? Big agriculture, fast food corps, big boxes. And just so you know, I'm not a conspiracy guy, and that's not my point.

Obesity culture is the opposite of a conspiracy, actually. It's out-in-the-open manifest-destiny-level change across an entire population.

A culture shift, if you will.

It's not very romp-like, but man, it's pretty fascinating, if terrible, to think about. The ramifications of obesity culture are, um, huge.