The Onion Movie - Obesity

From The Onion -- Following reports that 87% of U.S. citizens are obese, the Surgeon General has addressed the problem by changing the Body Mass Index for obesity from 55% to 95%. Now the rate has gone down from 200 million obese people to 185 million.

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