the worst health problems America has faced in a long time is the growing rate of obesity. It is out of hand and only growing in severeness. At the same time, our country spends billions in trying to lose the weight.
Even though obesity is a well recognized problem here in the United States, this weight problem is felt well beyond the American borders. Obesity has grown to epidemic proportions where over a billion people are now considered over weight.
The blame for the high obesity rate can be put on several shoulders. How about the fast food industry and it’s mammoth sized portions of food they give. Or maybe we should blame the fad fitness programs who promise unrealistic results with little or no work. Maybe this fault goes to the governments, corporations, or health care providers who can’t provide affordable health care to those in need.
Or would it even be fair to blame anyone but the individual who themselves ultimately do make the final choice on what foods they eat and how often they exercise?
Lets think a bit more broadly about what the real problem is or why we are a fatter society than we once used to be.
First, our society is no doubt more technologically sound than we ever were. Long gone are the days where when we needed to eat meant we’d have to catch and kill or grow our own foods. There are very few miners and laborers in the fields and factories anymore. Now that we have machines and automation, it makes our lives much more simple, relaxed, and lazy.
Even kids these days don’t get outside enough to play like they once used to. Video games, the internet, and digital high definition televisions has children eating more and burning less calories throughout the day.
Our future generations will have even more severe obesity problems if we don’t do something about it now. If kids now are overweight, and then these kids have kids, it is only common sense they the new generations will be even more overweight.
This problem has to be solved in a house to house level where the parents or head of house has to make the tough decisions for the kids and limit the amount of food and inside exposure. Encourage your kids to get out and play ball, ride a bike, or just run a muck like children do. If we can teach our kids the importance of health and well being by eating a good diet now, then we can save our kids kids as well.
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