1. The manufactures of child safety seats are now producing bigger sizes model after the study on the U.S children which showsobesity that more than 250000 children of the age 6 and below are so fat that they are not able to use the safety seats.
  2. There were studies conducted by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity in Yale University. According to this study, near about 4000 people are eager to give up one year of life rather than becoming fat.
  3. The average weight of an American people has increased by 8.5 pounds from the year 1991 to 2000.
  4. In the year 2004, the Federal Aviation Administration has also increased the estimation of the weight for an average male from 170 lbs to as high as 184 lbs.
  5. Do you know in the year 2000, the airlines had spent $275 million for 350 million extra gallons of fuel in order to balance the extra weight of the passengers?
  6. Manuel Uribe weighs 1,200 pounds now which is equivalent to the weight of 5 baby elephants. He is bedridden from last 5 years. He was already left alone by his wife long ago and the reason was his tremendously increasing size.
  7. The medical center at Duke University founded that men and women who have lost at least 10 percent of their total body weight are having a better sexual life too.
  8. Obesity is the second number of escapable death cause in the country. The number one cause in the list is the use of tobacco.
  9. Department of Veteran Affairs has confirmed that about 7.5 million veterans who have received the health benefits from their organization, from which over 70 percent are obese and around 20 percent of them are having diabetes. These are the main causes of the blindness, kidney problems, heart problems, and amputations.
  10. Mississippi has highest number of the fattest people in the country. Over twenty-five percent of the total Mississippi populations are obese. Can we blame the famous sweet potato crunch, mud pie, fried shrimp, etc for this?