I was watching a youtube video from the surgeon general Richard Carmona. This piece was fascinating to me. It outlined his views on America's Public Enemy #1. I assumed this to be a speech involving global warning or maybe terrorist's. Actually it was on obesity. Rather than use this entry to outline statistics on the subject (which are mind-blowing) I found one statistic to be the most shocking. A video on America's #1 Enemy had been viewed only 830 times in 3 months...hmmm....9 million obese children (and growing) and 830 views. Well because I am not a youtube guru, I decided to test the amount of views to other popular topics.

MUSIC: The rapper "Surgeon General" (I have never heard of him) 2000-4000 views. Not bad

ADULT: Top 5 listings under "Boobs" average 1,000,000 hits in a matter of months..??

ENTERTAINMENT: Lindsay Lohan's most recent "leaving the club" 9400 views...in 2 days. The rest are in the mega millions

The point being, as much as I hear about the health epidemic in our country, I see nothing being done about it. With the amount of time we spend online and with the obvious change in "average" I pray for an increase in research on subjects that will directly effect our lives. We all will have to be accountable for something. I can't believe our health and the health of our loved ones is not more of a priority.