All people have different addictions, some are drugs, some are alcohol, some are caffeine, but the leading killer is food. Yes, we have to have food to live, but not the shit we put in our bodies on a day to day basis.
I sat in a restaurant recently and observed the people eating around me and noticed that they were a wee bit overweight. Okay I'm being nice, they were extremely obese! Then I took a look at the place that I was at and looked at the menu and noticed that everything on the menu was fried! But wait, they give you a salad to start out with so it must be healthy?! Watching this one person eat was quite disguisting, but I couldn't stop watching. It was like watching the trainers at the zoo feeding the animals, you don't really know why you're watching it, but you know that you're amazed by it.
I'm not really sure of how some of you view this, but I can explain my views pretty easy.
You go into a place, they have some options of "side dishes", they're vegetables, but they're soaked in fat, fat, fat, oh yeah and some more fat! Green beans deep fried, carrots fried in butter, or butter broccoli.
So why is Americans the fattest out of all the other countries? Some say it's because we can actually afford to eat out all the time, others say (and my opinion) because we use food to comfort us, also known as "comfort food". Places like Cracker Barrel, Bob Evans, Po' Folks, they all serve comfort foods. Foods that we as Americans find to settle us at our most down moments.

Illustration done by me.
Look at McDonald's for instance, they start up a $1 menu. A lot of people loves this little added cheap heart attack. The motivation is that you can eat cheap, you can fill your body full of foods that make your ass grow for only $1. Places like Jenny Craig, and Weight Watchers charge you $50 a month to loose weight, and McDonald's charges you $1 to pack the pounds back on.
So McDonald's starts this dollar menu thing and almost all of the other national chained fast food joints follow. So now you can go to almost any highway exit and grab a bite for $1 or two.
So what's all this mean? It's quite simple. We're all FUCKING lazy and are always on the move. Some of us feel that we don't have any other choice but to go to these places. Hell I know that it's much easier, especially people traveling on the road. But that's where all the marketing of these places come from, they know that you're in a rush, they know that you have to eat, so they mark things down to $1 so that not only you can get them in a flash, but you can save your pennies.
Are you really saving though, I mean how much does open heart surgery cost? I'm sure it's a lot more than a double cheese burger and a medium fry.
But it's not just fast food that's out there that makes us fat. Go to a carnival, or a state fair, and there's huge signs that say "Deep-fried Snickers and Twinkie!". Okay, like these weren't horrible for you in the first place, now add a pound of batter and 13lbs of fat and now you have a heart attack in a paper cup. Yum!
We have events to see how much you can eat! Not only do you try to stuff your face full, but you have a timer running at the same time, therefore you're also swallowing everything whole, not allowing your xbolism catch up!
I'm not saying that you should never eat this stuff, but like any other drug, you have to do it in moderation and not make a lifestyle out of it; other wise your ass begins to grow, your heart rate starts to speed up, and your ass starts looking like Rosie O'Donnell and then you die.