0_Apprentice
The United States is getting more and more obese.  Why is this happening?
1_Wizard
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 
0_Apprentice
How does how fat you are, affect the function of your heart, and cause heart diseases.
1_Wizard
coronary heart disease that lead to mortality.
0_Apprentice
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?
1_Wizard
We as a country has to eat healthy because  obesity rates in the United States are the highest in the world.
0_Apprentice
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.
1_Wizard
While many industrialized countries have experienced similar increases, 