exploring the problem in many different ways. free, we hope of all the usual lecturing and finger pointing. it is indeed a weighty issue as seth doane will be showing us in our sunday morning cover story. reporter: america is 4.6 billion pounds overweight. and our health care system is straining under the burden of it all. about 147 billion dollars a year are spent directly related to obesity. reporter: later on sunday morning, the obesity epidemic. it s a big problem that s getting bigger. and, yes, size matters. osgood: the body of work of many a great artist contains portrayals of the human body. not all of them match our current idea of the well proportioned female form. martha teichner will be our guide. reporter: be honor. if you saw women like these three walking down the street clothed, would you consider them beautiful or just overweight? what about these others thought to be among the greatest beauties in all of our art history? none of those figures were
free, we hope of all the usual lecturing and finger pointing. it is indeed a weighty issue as seth doane will be showing us in our sunday morning cover story. reporter: america is 4.6 billion pounds overweight. and our health care system is straining under the burden of it all. about 147 billion dollars a year are spent directly related to obesity. reporter: later on sunday morning, the obesity epidemic. it s a big problem that s getting bigger. and, yes, size matters. osgood: the body of work of many a great artist contains portrayals of the human body. not all of them match our current idea of the well proportioned female form. martha teichner will be our guide. reporter: be honor. if you saw women like these three walking down the street clothed, would you consider them beautiful or just overweight? what about these others thought to be among the greatest beauties in all of our art history? none of those figures were skinny. none of those figures were skinny.
captioning sponsored by cbs and johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations. osgood: good morning. i m charles osgood and this is a special edition sunday morning. we re devoting this broadcast to a public health issue that many experts tell us is one of the most serious we face. we re talking about all those extra pounds. so many of us carry. it turns out size matters a lot in many different ways. this morning we ll be exploring the problem in many different ways. free of all the usual lecturing and finger pointing. it is indeed a weighty issue as seth doane will be showing us in our sunday morning cover story. reporter: america is 4.6 billion pounds overweight. and our health care system is straining under the burden of it all. about 147 billion dollars a year are spent directly related to obesity. reporter: later on sunday morning, the obesity epidemic. it s a big problem that s getting bigger. and, yes, s