Brazil is on ABSOLUTE RED ALERT Over Weight Crisis

There's a Reuters story out today called "The Chubby Girl From Ipanema? Brazil Puts On Weight".  It's about how almost half of Brazil's adult population is now overweight, and 15% are obese.  This is a dramatic change from a study done in Brazil in 1974.

Here's what I love best about this story - Brazil's health minister tells reporters:

"We are in a situation of absolute red alert. If we stay at this pace, in 10 years we will have two-thirds of the population overweight (or obese), as has happened in the United States."

You have to love it.  Brazil is on ABSOLUTE RED ALERT at the prospect of getting to the place in the next ten year where we in the U.S. ALREADY ARE. Where is our red alert here in the U.S.??