On the subject of girth, I know the airlines recently updated their flight load calculator to increase the average weight of an adult...

Indeed, the small 30 seat Saabs that get flown can't hold 30 passengers anymore...

But I digress... Did you rease the article on MRI machines and wonder if we'll have to retool our metal detectors to become extra wide?

A fatty won't set off the machine, it depends on how hard and forceful the "brush" is.