It seems ironic that in a country where most everybody wants to be thin, more and more people are becoming overweight. With over fifty percent of the U.S. adult population and twenty-two percent of the entire U.S. population being overweight, obesity has become an epidemic. It has infected not only our adult population, but is also at work on our youth. Twenty-five percent of all Americans under the age of nineteen are either overweight or obese, a statistic that has doubled over the last thirty years. (Koplan, 440) It is recognized as a major cause of illness and death worldwide. The U.S. accounts for 280,000 deaths annually due to obesity and at current rates it will surpass smoking as the primary cause of preventable death. As time wears on, experts estimate that the cost of the fight against obesity will make the fight against AIDS seem cheap. (Crister, 462) And as our country seems to get fatter and fatter, scientists and researchers try to discover the causes for obesity in......

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Title: America's "Big" Problem
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Approximate Pages: 10 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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