Obesity rates higher in 2006

Despite all the messages to control obesity a report from the "Trust for America’s Health (TFAH)" reveals adult obesity rates rose in 31 states last year, according to the fourth annual F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America. Twenty-two states experienced an increase for the second year in a row; no states decreased. A new public opinion survey featured in the report finds 85 percent of Americans believe that obesity is an epidemic. Economics and Social Science have been labeled "Dismal Sciences" in the past because they promised much and accomplished little. We need to add "Behaviorual Science" to this list.