America seems to be obsessed with thinness. In magazines people see ultra-thin models and envision themselves with that ideal of beauty. In cities, fitness centers, dieting and weight loss advertisements, and health food stores are popping everywhere encouraging Americans to “get fit”. Despite these efforts the problem of obesity is not changing. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that “more than one-third of the adult population in the United States is considered obese,” leading experts to label the problem of obesity as an epidemic in America. Obesity is harmful to the body and responsible for a variety of health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, infertility, depression, several
