Obesity is a big problem in the US, do you know much about that?
Yes in fact obesity has continued to grow within the United States and the US now ranks the most obese country in the world. 
Wow that's unfortunate, do you know what percentage of adults are obese in the US?
About 160 million people in the Us are obese currently. So about 35%
Yikes, that's quite a lot. Are there any solutions to the obesity epidemic?
A healthy diet and more excersize for sure, Its crazy that an obese person in America incurs an average of $1,429 more in medical expenses annually.
Wow that's a lot, healthy diet is key. I try to follow a Mediterranean diet, have you heard of it?
Mediterranean diet
The Mediterranean diet is a diet inspired by the eating habits of Greece and Italy. The principal aspects of this diet include proportionally high consumption of olive oil, legumes, unrefined cereals, fruits, and vegetables, moderate to high consumption of fish, moderate consumption of dairy products (mostly as cheese and yogurt), moderate wine consumption, and low consumption of non-fish meat products.
There is some evidence that the Mediterranean diet lowers the risk of heart disease and early death, although a 2019 review
randomly from that population (also known as a cross section of that population), measure their weight and height, and calculate what percentage of that sample is categorized as obese. This cross-sectional sample provides us with a snapshot of that population, at that one point in time. Note that we do not know based on one cross-sectional sample if obesity is increasing or decreasing; we can only describe the current proportion.
Cross-sectional data differs from time series data, in which the same small-