Americans are getting a little taller and a lot fatter. Obesity, aided by poor diet and lack of activity, threatens to overtake tobacco use as the leading preventable cause of death. "Everyone has a leaf blower. Ten years ago, people had rakes." "What will happen with the next generation of adults is really scary." An average 15-year-old boy weighed 135.5 pounds in 1966 and 150.3 pounds by 2002. The full report is at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad347.pdf Americans Getting Taller, Much Heavier | 
