Obesity triples among U.S. teens

Are kids and teens these days getting fatter? In almost every sense of the word, as a random sampling from a few weeks ago at a skating rink proved my point. Kids that would be considered obese made up about 25% of all the kids I witnessed. Staggering, really.

And then I read this today -- which says the number of U.S. children having obesity surgery has tripled in recent years. What does this all mean? Well, operations like gastric bypass surgery will become more common -- even for kids.

So this is what many kids have come to -- a major surgery to curb eating habits? Gastric bypass did not even exist 20 years ago for kids -- so what has changed? Lack of exercise, sedentary lifestyle and eating junk foods day and night -- that's what. Unfortunately, I see the problem getting worse before it gets better. Do you?