Their same data tells a different story when reformatted and correlated with caloric information:
http://i.imgur.com/e8XBN.jpg
Today's average restaurant meal means people are drinking 6x as much water (which the CDC itself recommends you drink significant quantities of each day) and the caloric density (kcal/oz) has had a dramatic decrease, falling by more than 50%!
http://i.imgur.com/e8XBN.jpg
Today's average restaurant meal means people are drinking 6x as much water (which the CDC itself recommends you drink significant quantities of each day) and the caloric density (kcal/oz) has had a dramatic decrease, falling by more than 50%!