Weight loss motivation

Need a little motivation for that New Years weight-loss resolution? The Orlando Sentinel is here to help:

As it is with stadium seats and amusement-park rides, so it is with autopsy tables and morgue drawers, cadaver carts and other equipment used to hoist, lift and carry the dead. Americans are growing too large to fit, so autopsy equipment is getting bigger.

The percentage of obese Americans has jumped from 15 percent about 30 years ago to about 33 percent, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty-three percent of Floridians are obese, according to a 2006 study.