I believe the nation's obesity problem can somewhat be traced back to the wide difference in price between healthy food and junk food. And that needs to change.
I'm guilty of this and I'm sure you are to, perhaps? Americans are gobbling down snacks at a record pace. And these popular snacks have so many varieties! There are over 1100 varieties of potato chips, over 500 varieties of chocolate, over 300 varieties of candy bars/snackbars/energy bars, 300 varieties of barbeque chips, over 350 varieties of rippled chips and the list goes on & on. I .