> "When you look at obesity, what I call the terror within, a threat that is
> every bit as real to America as the weapons of mass destruction, obesity as
> an epidemic is ... growing.  If we don't do anything about it, we will have
> a morbidly obese, dysfunctional population that we cannot afford to care for
> because obesity leads to diabetes, cancer, hypertension, [and] other
> cardiovascular diseases,"

> Richard Carmona, Surgeon General