Obesity in America is an epidemic that not only threatens the quality of American living, but American lives. The Centers for Disease Control estimate that roughly a third of Americans are overweight, with 20 percent of us qualifying as obese. During the last two decades. there has been an annual 1 percent increase in the ranks of the overweight. Worse, it is even affecting the very young. 15% of children between ages six and nineteen are overweight, and 10% of those between two and five. John Foreyt of Baylor College of Medicine warns, "This may be the first generation of children who will die before their parents."

Like the Coneheads, we are assuming mass quantities and society is prepping us for this acceptance of obesity. Seats in newer movie theaters are on average 20% wider. Everything in America is bigger and not necessarily better: Corporations (through mergers), our responsibilities at work (by downsizing our co-workers and their checks and doling out additional responsibilities to the remaining workers), even the style of clothes being worn