Obesity Doesn't Just Affect the Obese

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/health/06obese.html?hp

This article (thank you to Neha for posting this on her facebook) is very scary.  It is really frightening to me how little people are starting to care about their health.  Now, not only are people giving themselves completely preventable diseases like diabetes and heart disease, they are putting their children at great risk.  Something needs to be done, but unfortunately people need to care enough to do something for themselves.  How can we get through to people to make them want to change their lifestyles?  For now, it looks like this is what I am going to be dealing with in a few years...