Some idiots effectively made food as addictive as drugs by stripping out all the crucial components and then marketing that garbage to kids to hook em young. Obesity started 3 or 4 generations ago and it's gotten worse because of those scumbags in the fast food industry who peddle sugar and trans-fats to kids. I can eat a whole bag of carrots and cucumbers and a whole container of hummus in a day and still need about 2000 to 3000 more calories to maintain my body weight (I'm 6'7'' ~200lbs). Lol I sound like a fatass but I'm just really tall and active (rockclimb and snowboard, run or lift on days that i'm not doing that)