Lately the New York Times has excelled in cre­at­ing com­pelling graphic charts. This one, which numer­ous blogs posted last week, shows how Amer­i­can food con­sump­tion has changed since the 1970s.

There’s an over­all increase of 1.8lbs of food a week: 0.5lbs of which is fat. Dairy is the only food cat­e­gory to see a decline, even with a 0.3lb increase in cheese consumption.

After look­ing at this, is it any sur­prised that since 1980 Amer­ica has seen a dou­bling of obe­sity in adults aged 20–74?

via Kot­tke