STV News can reveal on Tuesday that Scotland's 14 health boards are having to invest hundreds of thousands of pounds in beds capable of carrying patients weighing up to a belt-busting 72 stone.
Those are the bald facts surrounding Scotland's obesity epidemic - and the problem is feeding through to our nation's children.
1 - Scotland is the second fattest nation in the world - only exceeded in expanding girth by the USA.
2 - Obesity claims an average of nine lives every day across the country - with Scotland's health services facing a £175m-a-year bill for treating conditions related to the problem - such as high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.
3 - The cost to Scottish society as a whole is estimated by the Scottish Government to be in excess of £457m-a-year.
4 - According to figures from ISD Scotland - part of NHS National Services Scotland, one in five children in primary one is classified as overweight. Around 8% are classified as obese, while 3.9% - one in every 25 children aged four and five - was found to be severely obese.
5 - Marks and Spencer have introduced school uniforms that go up to the equivalent of a woman's size 18 to cater for overweight school pupils.
6 - The Scottish Government estimate that by 2030, the number of people with type 2 diabetes will almost double to 150,000.
7 - Health bosses at NHS Lothian have spent tens of thousands of pounds on equipment to deal with massively obese patients - including special super-size body bags.
8 - A former private hospital - the Golden Jubilee in Clydebank - is to be transformed in to a specialist clinic in a bid to battle the obesity crisis. It will carry out around 60 gastric band procedures next year for patients in the west of Scotland.
9 - In total, 229 people in the NHS Lothian area had obesity listed as a cause of death on their death certificates in the past five years.
10 - The issue isn't just confined to Scotland's people - it has spread to our pets too. Figures from the PDSA show that dogs in Scotland are the fattest in the UK, with 37% overweight compared to a national average of 35%.
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