Stock your shelves a little tighter; it's gonna be a rough ride. Crazypoliticos.com predicts food shortages by next summer (2013) will make obesity and food excess an outdated fad... Here's why:

• Corn and grains are suffering and wilting with the intense heat and drought throughout the Midwest.
• Food prices have increased by 37% in the last year (Bloomberg)
• Heat a waves are damaging crops and increasing the amount of water needed to grow food, however water has been short due to heat and drought. 
• Fires have been raging across the west, risking soils and fresh water.
• Americans get a good portion of our food from China and the Latin Americas, and supplies can easily be cut off by hunger, strikes, and instability. China could withhold to increase prices; it's a lot of power.

The shortages have already begun in poorer regions of the world; Afrca, India and the Koreas have been especially hard hit.