Due to global climate change (which has cascaded into changes in feeding patterns), female polar bears weigh an average 20 percent less than they did in 1980. This I heard yesterday from a Program Officer for the UN Convention of Biological Diversity (which the U.S. has signed but not ratified--our "signature" move). Skinnier polar bears, just another shifting baseline (waistline).
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Hey, maybe with global warming, Americans will start to shift their waistline in a negative direction, too.
Unfortunately, the all-American feeding pattern of junkfood+TV probably won't change much.