With the baseline so far off-screen, the story is told by the apparent angle of a line through the data points, rather than their proportion to the whole. Compress the scale horizontally and Bam! I’m wasting away to nothing. Why, at this rate by next week, I’ll hardly be here at all.

See http://www.savory.de/blog_jul_10.htm#20100719
Ole Phat Stu, soon to be renamed Ole Phin Stu