Obesity is arguably the gravest public health threat in the United States today.

Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a crisis in slow motion, one that has crept up on us over years, and even decades.

Members of the public health community have been highlighting our national neglect of public health infrastructure for decades.

There are far more satisfying explanations for epidemic obesity. We have more calories available per capita per day than ever before in history. And more and more of those calories are packaged in highly processed, flavor-enhanced, processed foods.

The big health problem in the country today is diabetes and pre-diabetes obesity .

People who say obesity has been hyped are wrong.