One of the most disturbing observations about overweight and obesity in the United States is the epidemic of super-sized kids. A survey of adolescents in thirteen European countries, the United States, and Israel found that the United States, followed by Greece and Portugal, had the highest percentage of overweight teens (Inge Lissau, et al., "Body Mass Index and Overweight in Adolescents in 13 European Countries, Israel, and the United States" Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, vol. 158, no. 1, January 2004). In 2004 twice as many American children and adolescents are seriously overweight than were overweight just twenty-five years ago. While there is no generally accepted definition for obesity as distinct from overweight in children and adolescents, the percentage of children who are overweight has more than tripled (from 4 to 13 percent) and the prevalence of overweight...