Are you from Michigan by chance?

Just returning from a holiday back to the states and with it the realization that Americans are overweight and I mean big time.  Being from Michigan myself, I recently received invitations from "friends" on Facebook and with it comes many photos of themselves and their families.   

Once I shared these photos, I was asked the question, "is everyone from Michigan that big?"

Not that there is anything wrong with it but it made me realize that Americans are eating too much of the wrong foods and not getting out to exercise at all it seems.

Now my bag was overweight by a few kilos and I ended up paying Southwest Airlines $25.00 to allow my bag of tricks to go with me (I was given a Brookstone room fan which I had to schlepp with me).  But what about the overweight people?  Do they have to pay overweight charges for their bodies?

When walking through DFW Airport last week we walked past the Detroit flight and before I could look at the monitor I knew where it was headed.  The choices in my head were Minneapolis or Detroit, had to be.  I knew this by looking at the people sitting in the departure lounge.  Do you think the airline adds extra fuel for those flight routes?

I know this might be offensive to some of the people out there and it is not intended to be so, but living in Asia for four years now has made me forget the McDonalds Super Size nation I once lived in.

Here is an interesting article addressing the flying issues of todays supersize Americans.