Charlie:  Your crazy accusations that I deliberately planned to hijack this thread are absolutely ridiculous.   I only mentioned my background in order to defend myself from criticism by you and others, in order to explain my true motivation for talking about obesity.

Obesity is a most important topic for our society to discuss, as it is one of the leading causes of serious heath problems in our nation.

The fact that you don't want to have any discussion at all about this critical problem is absolutely shameful behavior on your part.

And your silly notion that this story has nothing at all to do with obesity is patently false.