Fat problems, but the Shrub don't care

"Obesity cost US $75bn, says study"

But a global plan to reduce it - put forward by the World Health Organisation (WHO) earlier this week - was delayed because of objections from the United States.

The WHO plan calls for governments to force food companies to reduce the amount of sugar and fat they put in their products.

But the US opposes this. It says it does not accept that heavy marketing of high-calorie processed foods is causing obesity.

I'm not a scientist so this may not be true, but humans must be the only animal ever whose species faces danger because too many of us are fat. Think about it.