North Carolina needs to go on a very big diet starting now!

These figures were released today. North Carolina kids 10-17 are the 5th most overweight of all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. That age group is fatter only in DC, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Among adults, wer rank as the 17th fattest state in the country. It takes a village to solve this problem; start with the next overweight person you meet and ask how you can help him or her lose weight. Everybody wins when you succeed, everybody.