LOL@ this being an American thing. This aint 2005. The US is not the fattest nation anymore and Europe has creeped the fukk up on the US in this matter. Mexico is the fattest country now and their government is copping pleas to have people drink tap water instead of buying bottled which leads to buying more soda(Mexico is the top soda drinking country in the world by a large margin). This, like any country is partly sticking to what we've always eaten, while our daily lifestyles have become more sedentary. The preservative in food aint helping either, but we certainly can't eat like we're all farming by hand or building houses all day when most of us work in offices.