Obesity is a disease that many Americans develop over the course of their lives. What makes obesity, such a serious matter is that it is the leading cause of life-threatening diseases such as cancer, heart failure, diabetes, and even depression. To make matters worse the United States had the highest rate of obesity and are estimated that about ¾ of the American population will likely be overweight or obese by 2020, according to Wikipedia. This is just not for adults, it is also for children who reportedly make up about 17 percent of the population are overweight and 63 percent of teenage girls are predicted to become overweight by age 11 (Wikipedia). The most practical solution to ending obesity would be developing good eating habits, encourage more exercising, staying away from what is called ‘Junk Food Marketing’, and a decrease in soda intake. Obesity is a serious problem in America and the main cause of this disease in children and adults is bad eating habits and lack of physical activity. My research on obesity strives to fill out the solutions mentioned above. I would point out the fact that schools or households are the perfect place to address this problem with obesity and other diseases in order to establish these solutions and hopefully inspire more people to become healthy, using this as an inspiration to inquire future defense against obesity in the United States. The main concept that needs to be fixed is the way children are being exposed to poor eating