Actually, Global Warming has caused me to gain weight. This winter has been so bad due to Global Warming that I sometimes don't get out for weeks at a time. So I tend to stock up on frozen foods rather than fresh fruits and veggies...I've gained around ten pounds so far :(

American undertakers offer 'super-size' coffins as population piles on the pounds

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Monday, 29 September 2003

Even in death, overweight people can sometimes struggle to find something that fits.

But
in the US at least, coffin makers are waking up to the demands of an
increasingly obese population. Anecdotal evidence suggests that across
America, as people get bigger, so are their burial caskets.

"It's
not exactly rocket science that people have been getting larger -
that's been well known for 30 years," said Allen Steadham, director of
the International Size-Acceptance Association, a Texas-based support
group for the obese. "People are living larger and they're dying
larger, and industries have to adapt to that situation."

Keith
and Julane Davis, who run the Goliath Casket company in Lynn, Indiana,
said that when they set up business in the late 1980s they would sell
just one triple-width coffin a year. Nowadays every month they ship
four or five of these vast caskets - 44in across, as opposed to a
standard 24in, and capable of holding a body weighing up to 700lbs
without "losing its integrity".

Mrs Davis said the design specifications had been developed by simple observation. She told The New York Times:
"It's just going to local restaurants or walking in a normal Wal-Mart.
People are getting wider and they're getting thicker." America's large
portions and fast-food culture have led to a population in which 20 per
cent of people are now considered obese, up from 12.5 per cent in 1991.
Of people aged 70 and over, the demographic that is of most interest to
the funeral industry, 17 per cent are deemed obese.

Other coffin
makers confirm the size increase and say that - just like the airline
industry - they are having to make a lot of adjustments. "Many people
in this country no longer fit in the standard-size casket," said David
Hazelett of Astral Industries, another Indiana-based coffin builder.

"The
standard-size casket is meant to go in the standard-size vault, and the
standard-size vault is meant to go into the standard-size cemetery
plot. Everyone in the industry is aware of the problem," he said.

In case anyone's interested here's a place to start.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis 1878-1937

But like many other media reports about obesity, Sy did not present the argument that ultimately every person is responsible for his or her own food choices.

   And that... is the underpinning of all the Liberal motives for the nanny state.  The 'people' do not have the ability to make good choices for themselves.  It is the responsibility of government to control choices.  Imagine the blank stares of disbelief that would have been given by the Founding Fathers if they had been asked if they thought it was the role of the government to establish dietary restrictions.

I actually catch crap at work because I 'cook' for my family (pst, you know like... from scratch).  Instant gratification lives on.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.  -Edmund Burke