More Americans are obese today than 40 years ago because:

We are eating less and moving less

We are eating more and moving more

We are eating more and moving less

Americans are not obese

Americans are eating more and moving less

While our highly industrialized methods of food production have temporarily lowered the cost of calories in our food supply, we know that they cannot be sustained in the future. And, unfortunately, the unprecedented shift in our diets from a natural pattern that has been maintained for tens of thousands of years to a sudden and unnatural dependence on corn, soybeans, and their oils has now made us the fattest people on the planet.