On Oct 23, 9:14 am, maxo gmail.com> wrote:

Wow, that was even less apropos of nothing! (Sorry, folks, morbid
curiosity made me look at Maxo's reply even though I normally don't
read his posts.)

Anyway, I did a little Googling in reference to the article and found
some interesting stats on the rise of obesity, in Tennessee and
elsewhere. It's pretty alarming.

I have recently noticed that the "women's" ["plus"] size clothing
section at Wal-Mart has been expanded. The reason I know this is not
that I shop in that section: Just the opposite. I occasionally
peruse the clothes at W-M (regular and "junior" sizes) and the other
day I noticed that a section previously dedicated to "regular" clothes
had been reassigned to "women's." This is a continuation of a trend
that I've noticed over the past decade or so.

On the one hand, I'm happy that plus-sized women can buy clothing at
regular stores and don't have to go to specialty stores and pay high
prices. On the other hand, I also assume it means that there are more
plus-sized women.

-KD