Where America Stands on Obesity

With a seemingly endless array of fast food restaurants and high-calorie meal options throughout the nation, Seth Doane finds out "Where America Stands" in the ongoing fight against obesity.

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• America
• U.S.
• Children
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[hookedoncaffeine]

I love how the same people who are trying to prevent obesity are fat themselves. Way to be hypocritical.

[PR0G4M3RING4M3S]

harharhar fat americans

[Karig89]

awww Wesley..poor thing..saying he eats to solves his problems. I hope he isn't being bullied..so many of us start eating so young to hide pain. Poor kid..

[linnywinnie5]

@r1pvanwinkle just let the fat people die, survival of the fittest, the smartest n strongest will survive

[r1pvanwinkle]

Unhealthy foods are cheap because our tax dollars ARE GOING TOWARDS GRAIN SUBSIDIES, STOP THROWING OUR MONEY AT FOOD FARMS AND CHEAP FOOD WAREHOUSES. here is a thought SUDSIDIZE PRODUCE

[SpazChat]

And the other problem is people themselves. They only want to eat stuff that tastes good and they eat too many processed foods. Well feces could be engineered and processed to taste good. Would you eat that too?

Notice how no one ever talks about preservatives in foods? They're not the angelic ingredients you've been lead to believe, they're quite the opposite.

[SpazChat]

First of all, I find it interesting how this clip had no ads placed on it and second, obesity is a glandular, hormonal and societal engineering problem. Go look down the street from your house. What do you see? Chances are, it's a McDonalds, Taco Bell, etc. Neither one of those establishments and many more sell food that fit for human consumption. Where is the local fresh food and produce? Sound weird? That's how they do it in countries where people aren't obese like Italy

[saibot240]

I love that the advertisement i got for this video was for Magnum ice cream!

[TheDemonDakki]

fighting obesity with giving children vegetable salads in school will not help -> after school / at home they will continue eating junk food / McFood like pigs ... 1'st - u must educate people how to live healthily ...

[TranceWulf]

Well if we need to tax the fat, then anyone whith ANY unhealthy habits should be taxed too, people who drink, smoke, and also have sex should be taxed too. Since aids, liver disease and lung cancer are really huge medical problems as well. Fucking hypocrites. And Australia is the fattest nation, not the u.s. I swear you people will believe anything that is degrading...

[thereinliestherib]

And we wonder why US health care costs are skyrocketing. It is officially time to tax the fat.

[xxdiogenescynicxx]

@pinkflutterby89 Honestly it isn't much of an excuse, I am pretty poor but I have a garden and mainly eat from there, also sometimes I will buy apples from the grocery store that are only 99 cents a pound. If you can't afford fresh fruit and vegetables at least get frozen they can be cheaper than mcdonalds dollar menu.