There are two American food styles and
locales. One style where you can find a restaurant that serves good
fruits and vegetables, particularly in the form of a salad, the other
being 90% of America. The former is mostly urban, but it is growing
(slowly).
Slowly, you bet. Actual vegetarians are an insignificant market. Only 1.5% of Americans ate vegetarian in the past three weeks.
This is a photo of a salad store in a mall on the outskirts of Boulder Colorado. The reliance on fresh fruits and vegetables is growing slowly but it is a positive sign for the weight of Americans.
The first rate study of weight loss and diet published in the recent New England Journal of Medicine put the final flourishes on the reality that I learned many years ago in Weight Watchers: there is only one way to lose weight and that is to count calories and write down the results. Nothing else is relevant.