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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 301340" data-attributes="member: 1645">From <a href="http://www.cspinet.org/new/200206181.html" target="_blank">From Wallet to Waistline</a>:Obesity rates in American adults rose by 60% between 1990 and 2000 alone, while childhood obesity rates doubled over the last 20 years. Obesity causes an estimated 300,000 premature deaths each year, second only to smoking as the nation’s leading cause of preventable death. Type 2 diabetes can no longer be called “adult onset” diabetes because it now occurs so frequently in children. “If you walked into a McDonald’s in the 1950s and ordered a burger, fries and a 12-ounce coke, you’d have bought a meal with about 590 calories,” said Carol Tucker Foreman, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America. “Today a popular super-sized meal may contain 1,000 calories more. As a result, we’re super sizing our kids and super sizing ourselves.”</blockquote>