Why is obesity a big problem in the USA?

Do you think it is because they consume much more than what is good for them??

...clearly it is. People do what they can get away with. If they don't have to cook, they don't, if they don't have to walk they don't. Then patterns become routines, routines become entire lives.

I watched a program in Australia a few days ago about the most obese people from the States...I was shocked by their size & how they were bedridden by their weight...one guy was around 880lbs+!!! - who had not walked in 6 years & if rolled onto his back would suffocate from his fat in his sleep !!! )-: his wife still snuck in snacks for him into the hospital.

Obviously u dont get to that size in a week,month,year but a lifetime...I went to my school reunion in Jan and some girl who was hot in high school and was a size 6, had put on about 90/110lbs on her 5'1'' frame!! She was wearing a poncho! lol

In Australia the news recently had new legislation that might be signed banning junk food to be sold in the school canteens!
Recent surveys state that this generation will be the first to actually be outlived by their parents...and that they considered obesity and childhood obesity an epedemic...obesity was defined on that tv show as someone that is 45 kgs(99lbs) over their ideal average weight for their height...!!!

It's a combo of carelessness, routine, and the mentality of fast food franchises in America...supersizing etc and one store on every corner etc...it makes it too easy...I wouldn't only blame them...people are just getting smarter and lazier with every generation...

there is stuff in food that makes you think you are not full...not to mention the hormones
Really big portions. Lots of fast food availabe and lots of busy people that don't have time to cook.
Food is good!
me
because they are always in a hurry and grab what ever is quick, instead of something thats good for them., and to many gadgets to do things for them, so they don't have to get off their butts and do it themselves---
I think that you have to look at what is being put into the foods. We are becoming lazy and looking for the "quick-fix". We don't want to spend hours making dinner, so we either get take-out or something that comes in a package that you have to heat up or something like that. There are so many additives in the foods today, do we really know what they are and what their side-effects are?