Americans haven't given overweight the same attention as other risks, like smoking, but it is clearly a top health problem and one that is on the rise in all segments of the population. Sturm and his co-author, Kenneth Wells, a psychiatrist on the RAND staff who is also on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine, declared. Sturm and Wells analyzed data from a nationally representative, household telephone survey of 9,585 adults conducted in 1998. It's a crude measure based on height and weight. It is many factors.
Food tastes good.
There's a lot about food that causes an addictive problem just like smoking or drinking. There has been a lot of attention on smoking. Smoking has declined dramatically in America over the last 30 years. Now you have to pay in order to be able to exercise in a pleasant environment. Riding a bike on a congested roadway is not fun.