Obesity, How Fat is Too Fat?

I've been hearing about obesity for a long time now, it seems. About as long as I've been hearing about anything else that people have a problem with these days. We hear a lot of different takes on this one, which is sort of why I'm interested in it. You see with most big problems that we face in the 21st century, everyone mostly agrees about the problem itself, if not the solution, but with obesity it's a bit different. You see some people don't care about obesity at all. Some people might even like it. People enjoy eating; it's something that we all have to do, right? Why not make the most of it? We talk a lot of fixing this problem. Whether we should start young, with prevention, or just lose the weight once we have it, or both. I think you have to do both, because if you just start trying to lose the weight, then you're going to gain it back, and your children are going to be just as fat as you.

Codrin said something in class along the lines of "We are fat because we as humans were not meant to live such a sedentary lifestyle" and I think that's an interesting idea. Within a reasonable amount of time in the past, we as human were generally much more active than we are now. But, as standard of living increased and the amount of work we had to do to be happy decreased, something else started going up. Something too big to be sneaky, but too quick for us to have caught in time. That thing is obesity. We don’t really know what hit us, honestly. We just do what we do until one day we look down and we can’t see our toes, and oh how shocked we are! This is just one place where you can see a statistic. They all really show the same thing--We're getting fatter. Especially in our neck of the woods. What I want to know is how to inspire people to do something about it. Any ideas?