More Fat than starving?

In this age of excess, we should not be too surprised to hear the statistic that there are now more obese people than hungry, starving people on this planet.
Nowhere is this more stark than in the United States, where obesity is a runaway phenomenon. Kids today are so at risk of obesity that people are projecting that children of this era are facing the dim prospect of living shorter lives than their parents.
Who's to blame?
Despite the inordinate amount of study on the topic, the root cause of obesity boils down to two things - increased calories in, and fewer calories burned off in activity/exercise.
Americans eat too much, and we work out or move our growing bodies too little. It is a recipe for disaster that is unfolding before us like an unwanted pannus of fat.
The horrible prospect of our pannus laden future should be grounds to get us off the couches, trying to live closer to our jobs to avoid excess time in our cars, and looking at the quality and amount of food we stuff down our gullets. America doesn't seem to be taking a good look in the mirror lately, or perhaps we've grown so large, the mirror can't show us our huge selves anymore.