The United States is getting more and more obese.  Why is this happening?
Don't know why.  Obesity in the United States has been increasingly cited as a major health issue in recent decades, resulting in diseases such as coronary heart disease 
How does how fat you are, affect the function of your heart, and cause heart diseases.
coronary heart disease that lead to mortality.
It's sad that people will allow themselves to get to that point.  What can we do as a country to stop that from happening?
We as a country has to eat healthy because  obesity rates in the United States are the highest in the world.
It's crazy that the United States has the highest obesity rate in the world.  I think it is really starting to affect us now though; impacting insurance and hospitalization costs.
While many industrialized countries have experienced similar increases,