I'm just accross the border in Bellingham and I've noticed a rapid spike in obesity here in the past 3 years. I'm really curious about the reason for this so did you notice the same thing in Vancouver or has the obesity rate just been steadily climbing up with no noticeable sudden spike? I have a theory that obesity is spiralling out of control because the offspring of obese people are entering adulthood now and they are greatly pre-disposed to obesity due to messed up epigenetics inherited from their over-eating parents. So maybe, for whatever reason, I just noticed it starting around 3-5 years ago and realized that that young adults seemed to be far, far fatter than I've ever seen them before.  edit: by "theory" I mean wild-ass guess at part of the reason behind what I'm seeing. In reality, a Perfect Storm of fatness likely has hit Blubberham out of the blue having converged out of multiple factors. Just weird how it used to be really fit here and now so depressing.