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TOPPED OUT! Have Americans Stopped Getting Fatter? ?We may have hit the biological limit on how fa?

By Glenn Reynolds

TOPPED OUT! Have Americans Stopped Getting Fatter? “We may have hit the biological limit on how fat we can get: virtually everyone who is going to be obese, already is. Obviously, this is not terrific news, especially in a country as opposed to body fat as ours. But it suggests that, as usual, panicking over mindless trend extrapolations might be a little premature.” A number of commenters, however, suggest that it’s economics that’s producing skinnier (well, no fatter) Americans.

Meanwhile, when I read William Forstchen’s One Second After, with its graphic descriptions of starving Americans, it did cause me to look differently at the fat folks at the mall for a while . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 14, 2010 (boomark / email).