My parents are in their 80's -- and healthier now than I'll ever be -- they never had McDonald's growing up -- Pepsi is Not their generation -- meat, potatoes and a veggie is a daily meal in the evening -- and water was free.

We've become a country of fast food junkies -- even in our school cafeteria's -- go into a school cafeteria and see how the kids have to shovel the food in just to get through in time -- they have to get so many kids into the cafeteria and in such a short period of time that the kids only have about 5 min to actually get the food down -- that causes a great deal of them to just skip it all together.

It doesn't surprise me at all that we've become a fat society.