My name is Oliver, and I'm from Denmark. During my stay at the USA I was told to make a presentation on Obesity in the US. So I've searched the Internet to find some relevant sources I could use for the presentation. Obesity has increased in the whole world, but especially in the USA. This is a subject people keep talking about, but nothing really happens. According to a new study by researchers at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, have annual medical expenditures attributable to obesity doubled in less than a decade, and may be as high as $147 billion per year.1 Worldwide have new healthy/activity campaigns and commercials launched often to prevent people from the disease, obesity. Even though those campaigns have launched, people keep buying shitty foods, because they are too lazy to cook themselves a delicious healthy meal. When you can buy a super-size menu at McDonald’s in the USA for less, than you can buy a meal at Panera Bread in the USA, number one selling healthy fast food restaurant worldwide, something has failed – the USA has failed. At schools in the USA the students don’t bring their own food for the lunch breaks, instead they will get a meal from the school’s cafeteria. I do remember a TV-show where a health-specialist visited several schools to change their common fat meals to something healthier. When that TV-show was on screen, was it something innovative, and it got great mention from the students’ parents and the local news. But there are still schools that could use the same guidance/help. But even though those schools have changed their lunch meals, the students can still buy sodas from the vending machines in the halls, and that is a huge mistake, if you want to prevent the youth from being fat. Those vending machines with soda should be replaced with machines with water or vitamin beverage. If you have changed your common fat lunch meals with healthier meals, your soda machines to vit