I’d love to see the methodology on these surveys about how they obtain the figures. ‘Drive-by” videos? Weigh-ins at malls? weights gathered at county healthcare centers?
Particularly when cities like Austin ‘shoot up’ in the rankings while others like Houston apparently drop precipitously.
Every time one of these things comes out, our TV stations go crazy with drive-by videos of fat people on the streets.
I've noticed that when news segments are done on the obesity epidemics, we get lots of drive bys of fat people from the neck down, or with the faces blurred out-but they're never *very* fat. They'll be 40-50 lbs overweight. The TV stations never get videos of the 300-400-500lbs + behemoths I see at wally world. I've never been able to figure that out : Why they illustrate segments on obesity with people who aren't terribly overweight at all, rather than with people who show just how bad it can get.