Some quick facts for you

• 55% of all adult Americans - 100 million people - are overweight.
  
  
• One out of three adult Americans is obese. This number continues to increase.
  
  
• In the next 10 years, 70 to 80 percent of all heart disease deaths will occur in people with Type II diabetes is frequently associated with obesity. In fact, obesity is the number one cause of Type II diabetes.
  
  
• Half of all cases of hypertension are attributed to obesity.

• An estimated 97 million Americans (55 percent of the U.S. population) are overweight or obese -- 59 million are overweight and 38 million are obese.
  
  
• Over the past 20 years, the number of children who are overweight has increased by more than 50 percent. The number of obese children has nearly doubled.
  
  
• Forty percent of non-Hispanic Blacks and nearly one quarter of Mexican Americans are obese.
  
  
• Obesity rates among African-American girls are the fastest growing among any demographic group in the country.

(Source:  Dr. Donnica, fast facts)

And here are some of the most scary, and intriguing facts that I've heard in a while. Courtesy of Suze Orman, on the Biggest Loser, Season 8.

• obese employees make $7,000 less than normal employees.

• If you swap out one restaurant meal a day you save: (family of four) 24$ a day

• Americans spend $4.4 billion on gastric bypass (220,000 people a year @ 20k a surgery (approx) )
  

• Americans spend $147 billion a year on obesity-related health issues.

• Americans spend $90 billion on cancer related issues, but we spend $57 billion more per year on obesity related health issues.

• You will save $1 million over 40 years by going from obese to your ideal weight