We are the generation that waits for someone to do something for us instead of doing it on our own. We are the generation in which our population size, knowledge and business scope have all increased but in the midst of all of this, so have our waistlines. Obesity is a growing dilemma in the United States and yet, we have proved ourselves to be incapable of solving it. Clinical Obesity can be defined as those individuals having a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 25 or more which is a category in which more than 50% of all adults in the United States are in as of today. (McMahan S). In the past thirty years, America’s obesity rate has more than doubled; it has reached 31.8%, which is roughly one-third of the United States population. Obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions making it a national, public health threat to children, adolescents, and even adults. Among the highest of the obesity rates, and perhaps the most disheartening, is the obesity rate for children ages six to eleven, which has increased from 6.5% in 1990 to 18.8% in 2010, more than tripling the obese rate for children in the last twenty years. However, the age range that is most at risk for obesity is adults aged 18-29, in which the obesity rate has increased from 5% to 12.9% in 2010. (McMahan S.) Obesity related diseases kill an estimated 375,000 per year, and is succeeded only by deaths due to cancer. It costs the federal government up to 117 billion in tax payer’s dollars for healthcare and this number is estimated to only increase and reach staggering figures in the next ten years.