Obesity Cost America USD 450 Billion

According to analysis done by McKinsey. The second biggest item of this bill is the 20% (USD 90 billion) that is spent on larger food purchases. That's like 40 times our national budget in case you're wondering. Naturally, bigger people need bigger clothes (USD 30 billion) and weight-reducing programmes (USD 20 billion) to fit in these larger clothes. And they need more wood for their coffins. But the largest component is the cost to the American medical system: USD 160 billion.

People are in fact getting fat around the world save Japan. Maybe that's because they've been on a deflationary diet for so long.

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World Could Soon Love America Again

If Barack Obama, who today signed the executive orders to have Guantanamo Prison closed within the next twelve months, makes good on a few other of his electoral pledges.

And don't be surprised to soon see something imaginable before last Nov 4th: America happily playing their favourite sport against the country which actually plays it better than them in Havana with Fidel Castro and Obama exchanging some good jokes about past diplomatic relations or lack thereof between their two countries. That would certainly bring back happy memories of a Pierre Trudeau laughing with the same Castro about accusations that he smuggled arms into Cuba on his kayak.