Elliemae, I believe you hit the proverbial nail on the head. But this issue transcends dietary habits, and goes more to the lifestyle that we in the Western world, mainly the U.S., have bought into. From birth, we are taught to do things a certain way in order to go to school, where we're taught to do things a certain way in order to go get a job. When I leave work at the end of the day, I've got about 4 hours before I have to get back into bed. This leaves me almost no time for self-improvement, proper planning of meals, relaxing or exercising.
Meals are usually on the run, or out at a restaurant.
At restaurants, the variety of healthy food is minimal. This problem of people getting fatter isn't necessarily up to us, in some regard. I'm extremely frustrated with the way things are. Freedom to work anywhere we want, but if we choose not to work, we become outsiders. I guess I'm fed up.