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New movie about obesity epidemic released

posted by Brent Hugh at 3/31/2009 02:47:00 PM

Killer At Large, a new documentary focusing on the issue of obesity in American society, has released a trailer:

There's some pretty strong stuff here:

He said to me, "Surgeon General, what's the most pressing issue issue before you today?" And I said, "Obesity."

It is destroying us, destroying our society, from within.

This generation of children is the heaviest in American history.

We may be producing a generation of children whose life expectancy isn't as long as our own.

The obesity epidemic is a threat to our national security.

61% of our active military are currently listed as overweight--we're not going to have a workforce that's healthy.

Exaggeration? Fear-mongering? Or just laying out the true scope of a problem our country has waited too long to address?