Obesity
Obesity is one of the biggest threat on people’s proper nutrition-health-wellness. Why it is so serious and important in terms of health today?
Obesity epidemic is a term which describes the timely and accurate health condition caused by overweight populations around the world. It is indeed a shocking fact that obesity epidemic as the name suggests has become an epidemic in literal sense. It is much more alarming to see that the condition in America outweights the severity of the conditions in all other countries in the world.
While obesity epidemic is common to both children and adults, the the darker side of the condition is obese children who turn adults gaining heart diseases, diabetes, arthritis and even cancer, at an earlier age than previous generations.
Studies show that in America, the sole cause behind obesity epidemic is bad eating habits. Fast foods, tinned, canned and packeted food items are nothing but culprits in this case. Bad eating habits, excessive time spent watching television and lack of physical exercise all contribute to get obesity epidemic spread steadily across generations.
Some obese people claim that obesity epidemic is a genetic condition. While obesity can be determined through a genetic predisposition to acquire a certain body type, we cannot point the finger at genetics to make us over-weight because quite naturally, we were not born with the obesity epidemic. However, it cannot be denied that environment plays a part in obesity which may make children of one generation heavier than the previous. When we talk about the environment, it is crucial to look at the lifestyles we have acquired and the amount of exercise we get on a daily basis. These habits too can quite naturally be passed down to generations without our conscious notice or effort.
According to statistics, we see no progress in to curing this so called obesity epidemic. The number of people suffering from the obesity epidemic gets recorded as higher as on each passing day.
I see it as an absurb notion to see how one group of people die due to lack of food and how another group is dying due to an excess of food So where should we draw the line between food and well being? And how often should we giving to temptations? Whatever said and done, at the end of the day, they are all individual choices!
Tags: health, obesity, weight loss
