Although America provides some of the world's best health care, it is one of most unhealthy nations in the world. An abundance of the most deadly medical problems in society are the result of the blinding disease obesity. As Mike Rounds confirms even further in "What America Can Do To Improve Its Health", "when people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems" (24). In order for America to improve its overall health, we must eliminate the root cause with individual and community improvement because "being overweight or obese are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for Americans of all ages" (Rounds, 24). When it comes down to it, being overweight is more than those few extra pounds. Obesity is likely to be the cause of the most common, destructive health conditions attainable, including heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, even osteoporosis and various forms of cancer. The risk of health problems can start when a person is even slightly overweight. The long-term suffering of these complications in health increase as someone becomes more and more overweight. When faced with the not-so-obvious epidemic of obesity we must ask ourselves, what is the leading principle? What can be done to defeat this widespread disease? The good news about America's obesity and being overweight, as well as their accompanying lifelong diseases, is that they are incredibly preventable at an individual level. Unhealthy diets and being physically inactive are the two main factors at hand for most of today's chronic illnesses. By simply limiting intake of bad sugars and fats that are associated with candy and fast food, and shifting them to consumption of the favorable fats and sugars, like fruits and whole grains, an enormous difference is made just in that. As well as diet, a rewarding way for active weight control, is a simple thirty minutes of adequate activity each day. If local communities