Sometime back (2000?) I lived in Alabama but happened to be in California at a Major League baseball game. One of my daughter’s acquaintances asked me if everyone was fat in Alabama. I said no. I felt like asking “how about that Hispanic guy over there?” but held my tongue. There was no obesity epidemic back then. There sure is one now. Something is very wrong.
It’s bad now. In my Elementary School in the 80’s, there was only one fat kid.