Considering what we wrote about with Victoria’s Secret skinny, skinny models, maybe it’s time for fashion designers to smell the coffee:

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports this week that, if Americans continue to plump as they’re doing now, “Roughly 86 percent of Americans 18 and older may be overweight or obese by 2030. As the adipose advance mounts, obesity-related health care costs would double. every decade and could reach $957 billion by 2030. (So much for a healthy America by 2010.) That means 1 of every six health care dollars would be due to people eating too much and exercising too little. Read all of this in a new study, in the journal Obesity.

Just think about it. “Twiggy” will be a size 12.

Most of us Baby-Boomers will be past the age of caring by 2030, but those who are still vital need to know that if you can’t eat less, exercise more. A strong heart is the best defense against lifestyle illnesses — on several levels — from cardiovascular diseases to diabetes.