The world health organization (WHO) made a study a number of years ago and estimated that out of the over six billion people on this planet, approximately 300 million are overweight. Numerically this statistic works out to roughly 5% of the world's population. This in itself is not alarming, what is surprising, however, is that two thirds of this overweight population resides in the United States! This implies that nearly 70% of the population of this country has some weight issues. The question of being overweight will be looked upon as an energy balance between the average human's energy needs (i.e., roughly 1,500 to 2,000 daily Caloric intake), to the actual Caloric intake. A virtual fast food menu will be presented in order to illustrate that one's daily Caloric needs are satisfied in roughly one meal in these establishments. Since three meals a day is the norm for most people then the excess food consumption, to an extent, is metabolically converted into lipids. Once the cumulative effects of this daily regiment is taken into consideration then a better understanding of the obesity concern of this country could be addressed.