Obesity

I think it is a combination of what you said but also our restaurants have increased the size of their portions. They are huge. When we go to the Cheesecake Factory restaurant we always bring half of our meal home for another day.

I think that we have a far different lifestyle today but honestly who is to blame? We are. We've become a fast food, super sized processed food society. I just hear on the radio that the FDA is making manufacturers change the nutritional information on the packages that we buy because the serving sizes that they reflect are the serving sizes that we ate in the 70's so they are no longer applicable. In addition to our poor eating habits, we sit in front of computers, televisions and video games all day. The arteries of children today are as clogged as the arteries of the average 70 year old. We are killing ourselves and killing our children with our poor dietary and exercise habits.

I dont think you can really point fingers at who is responsible. Manufacturers are putting profits before the health of consumers, our lifestyles require us to always be on the go and eat fast food, and half of the people dont even have time to exercise. I think that what they are doing now with educating people they should have been doing a long time ago.