Last night on the Colbert Report, Steven Colbert said we’re all super fat – as in the people of Eau Claire, specifically. The piece in question concerns the health care reform bill and an amendment that mandates lower premiums to people who lose weight. Here’s the excerpt, courtesy of Eat Me Daily:

• The government's really sending really mixed messages: first they subsidize corn, making it so cheap we can gorge on high fructose corn syrup, then they charge us more for health insurance just because our organs have caramelized. Well I'm sorry, but our bodies are the only growth industry America has left. China may have 1.4 billion people, but I doubt they outweigh the combined residents of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Being overweight is as American as eating a whole apple pie. And we're the majority folks, 67% of the population is either overweight or obese, the scales are literally tipped in our favor.

Here’s a link to the whole show in question over on Hulu. The Eau Claire reference happens in the bit starting around 6:30.

Come on, Steve, lay off the Midwest. Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama, and Louisiana are the fattest states in the nation. Wisconsin is a distant-ish 26th. Details.