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Editor's note: This is a courageous topic on the part of the blogger. It's a reminder for all of us to learn as much as we can about the importance of proper nutrition and daily exercise. Please see your physician before undertaking strenuous exercise.

Obesity is epidemic in this country. This is a fact we all know. Some thin people look at fat people with disdain because they feel the fat person has done this to themselves and could just undo it.

This is just not so.

I have fought obesity most of my life and I am currently losing the battle, again.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- About 400,000 gallons of raw sewage spewed into a wooded area Thursday morning near Sugar Mill Drive, but was contained to a low-lying area that stopped it from continuing into a nearby drainage ditch, county officials said.

The spill was blamed on a broken 30-inch pipe that has since been repaired, officials said. The same mainline was affected by a broken pipe off of Glencoe Road a year ago.

County officials said the spill does not pose any health risks because of its remote location and is being cleaned up.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A 50-year-old Longwood man was found dead near his BMW of the Interstate 4 off-ramp at U.S. 92 Thursday morning.

The man was identified as Donald Heintz. There were no signs of foul play and an autopsy was ordered to determine the cause of death, Daytona Beach police said.

An employee found the man's body when co-workers at his workplace in Daytona Beach were worried about him when he didn't show up, police said.

President-elect Barack Obama will invoke God when he takes the oath of office January 20, despite a lawsuit filed by atheist and non-religious groups, according to an attorney for Chief Justice John Roberts, who will administer the oath.

This was one of the lead-in stories in CNN politics in our Washington politics headlines on NSBNEWS.net early this morning and it made me proud to be an American. It also reaffirmed my belief in Barack Obama as our next president and why I am pleased to have voted for him.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Zodrick "Scooter" Jones was shot dead during the late hours of June 21, in what may have been a vengeance killing.

The 20-year-old was found in a pool of blood outside his grandmother's home on Cedar Heights Boulevard just before midnight that night.

According to police reports, the grandmother heard a series of gunshots and when she got outside, she found blood puddled under his head.
Less than a month later, Daytona Beach police arrested Woody Ross on a charge of murder.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A man stumbled out of his friend's apartment at 139 South Halifax Drive, to which a neighbor herd him say, "I'm dying," before he did just that the night of Feb. 20. The woman inside was already dead.

Both Kirk Allen Zoeller, 50, and Donna Truillo, 51, had been stabbed to death just before 8:30 that night.

Police later charged 26-year-old Doug Blaine Matthews with two counts of first-degree murder in what may have been a drug-related robbery.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The lawyer for the Florida Law Enforcement found dead with his wife in their Cedar Avenue home died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head Sept. 22, while there were no outward signs of trauma to the wife's body, autopsies done by the Volusia County Medical Examiner's Office revealed.

DEBARY -- The search for an accused murderer in the gunshot-slaying of a DeBary woman on Christmas Eve ended less than two days later with the discovery of the suspect's body in a wooded area of St. Johns County.