Changing the Way America Eats – with the Foogal App, harness the power of real food and nutrition to treat and prevent metabolic syndrome. America’s Problem with Metabolic Syndrome Here in America, we have a problem with metabolic syndrome, which is a set of conditions that include high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, high levels of triglyceride, and low levels of HDL cholesterol. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), co