Obese now pass overweight in America - rapidly pass

Now, I take BMI measurements with a grain of salt, let me first say. I know they're pushed in part by health insurance companies, who have financial reasons to push the BMI as a way of labeling who is overweight and who is obese.

That said, people classed as "obese" in America now outnumber the merely "overweight."

And, here's real bottom line. As a percentage of population, the "overweight" has held steady in the past 15 years, while the "obese" has increased by 50 percent! And, that's not counting, apparently, the 6 percent labeled as "extremely obese."

Both "obese" and "overweight" top 30 percent, and both of them top "normal weight" numbers.