Re:All this talk of food is making me (Score 1)

You have to love how people will find anything to blame to explain their problems...except themselves. Obesity (for the most part), as with most things, is entirely a problem of the person and their eating habits. It is entirely a caloric consumption/expenditure issue. Since people in this country drive everywhere, and have some device to do pretty much all of their activities that could even remotely be construed as exercise, the amount of calories burned is horrendously low when compared to the monster meals we eat. People just need to be conscious of WHAT and HOW MUCH they are eating, and adjust accordingly. Eating everything that a restaurant puts on a plate is a really bad idea, but most people do it because they have either been taught that they must finish everything on their plate, or they feel they are wasting food. The worst is really a buffet though, because unless you return to the buffet line X number of times, you haven't gotten your money's worth!! FWIW, I am a medical student, and didn't fully understand some of this stuff prior to taking classes in nutrition, mostly because most had never been presented to me in a useful format. "Eat Healthy and Exercise" is all you hear, but if you take a survey of 100 Americans, how many know what that really means? My parents believed that cleaning the house and doing laundry qualifies as exercise, and while it does qualify as activity, its not enough. Some people think eating healthy is eating a fried chicken sandwich (because its chicken) and vegetables drenched in butter (or worse yet, fried as in the case of fries). I believe if there was more education in the USA about eating habits and the problems that are caused by obesity (diabetes,cardiovascular disease,high blood pressure, etc etc), we would be better off. But in the "land of the free", evidently we are all free to eat ourselves to death.