Dem. Senate Candidate Said Obesity 'Dilemma Will Dwarf 9/11'

Richard Carmona, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Arizona, said that obesity would “dilemma will dwarf 9/11 or any other terrorist attempt.”

“Obesity is the terror within,” Carmona told a University of South Carolina audience in early 2006, according to a wire report from then. “Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9-11 or any other terrorist attempt.”