Obesity is associated with sudden death.

Yes, it could be totally unrelated to his weight, but the fact remains that he was 6-3 and he weighed 310 pounds and probably should have been 210 pounds.

There's a rush to judgment that his death was related to his obesity, and that's an open-ended question. We're trying to answer the questions: Is there obesity in the NFL? And if there is obesity, are the players at more or less or the same risk as their counterparts in the real world? Those are questions we have to answer.

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, ... There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.

Except for smoking, obesity is now the number one preventable cause of death in this country. Three hundred thousand people die of obesity every year,