Fatty Nation

Yikes! Apparently the stereotype of Americans is true. The National Institutes of Health reports that a community-based study found that over 30 years, nine out of 10 men and seven out of 10 women were overweight or became overweight. And more than one in three were obese or became obese. More than 4,000 residents of Framingham, Mass., aged 30 to 59, participated in the study from 1971 to 2001.