Thank you Senator Gillibrand for bringing our attention to obesity, and healthy school lunches

Some background.

Here's information about obesity by state from the US Center for Disease Control:

http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html#State

Here is an advocacy group that produced a biased, incomplete report based on the CDC data:

http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2009/

Here is a news article based on the 'agenda filtered' data. "Dog," says the man, "bites man."

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1909406,00.html

The AP wire story from Yahoo! News:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_med_obesity_rankings