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Obesity In America Why is it that so many Americans are overweight today, than they were fifty years ago? A simple answer to that question is that Americans have changed their eating and work habits. Forty to fifty years ago fast food was a relatively new thing, and to be able to eat it was a luxury. Now today there are fast food restaurants on just about every corner. A long time ago people use to have to cook their food instead of just driving up to a window and getting a bag full of empty calories. The school lunches have changed also. There was a time when schools had lunchroom ladies or cooks who would prepare nutritious well balanced lunches. If a child did not by a school lunch, then a parent prepared a lunch for their child. Now there are schools where pizza and French fries or pizza and potato chips are served everyday for lunch. There is not a salad or a piece of fruit in sight. There is even an elementary school in Chicago, where everyday the children are served a meal from different fast food franchises. One day the meal would be served from Mc Donalds, the next day Pizza Hut, then KFC, an