A recent article out of Reuters says the numbers indicate that America will fall short of the goal to decrease the numbers of obese adults, and we'll miss it by a mile. In the early 1960s, only 13 percent of adults were obese. That number more than doubled by 1999 to 30 percent, prompting the government to publish a series of health objectives titled Healthy People 2010. The proposed goal was to drop obesity stats to 15%. Rather than dropping though, the obesity trend has risen in the last decade with 32% of men registering at overweight in a 2007-2008 study.

Also disturbing, it costs more to be fat, and specifically it costs more to be a fat woman than it does to be a fat man according to research from George Washington University. They found that the annual cost of being obese for a woman is $4,879 and $2,646 for a man. Researchers accounted for several factors including sick days, extra gasoline, and lost productivity. The reason for the difference between men and women is that thinner women typically earn more than their obese counterparts, but this is not the case for men.

Dr. Kevin Schulman, a Duke University professor of medicine who was not involved with the research from George Washington U tells the NY Daily News, "We're paying a very high price as a society for obesity, and why don't we think about it as a problem of enormous magnitude to our economy? We're creating obesity and we need to do a man-on-the-moon effort to solve this before those poor kids in elementary school become diabetic, middle-aged people."