This is such a great article, thank you for bringing this to our attention! This is the reason why I started researching healthy eating in the first place. I gained a significant amount of weight, and one of the key factors that I found at the root of the problem was processed sugar. The excessive amounts of processed sugar being added into food overall in the North American diet is, I believe, what's causing a lot of these statistics. We're talking 2 - 3 times a person's daily intake of sugar in just one frappucino or one Coca Cola. And that sugar gives more energy to the body than it would normally burn in a day, so it doesn't use it, and that energy gets stored as fat throughout the body. Great article my friend! :)