Uncle Sam Is Not Coming to Dinner

America is fat, but Americans disagree about what this means. Either the country’s obesity rate one-third of all adults are obese a dangerous health crisis, or they show that the nation is healthier and wealthier than ever. Either the government must act immediately to curb our waistlines, or we must act to curb our bloated government. These were the questions debated in NYU’s Skirball Center last night at the Slate / Open to Debate formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S. live debate, in which four health and policy experts argued the motion that Obesity is the government’s business.