Obesity is a Globe's Newest Epidemic

Hello daiweian You are right , the magazine is giving correct information on this global issue, lol, kids these days have little physical activity, they get up do home work given by teacher, go school by bus, in school they sit, come home by bus, watch tv etc, so no exercises of the limbs.. about food they eat chocolates, fast food etc etc So lack of physical activity and fast food leads to obesity..we must stop giving fast food and make kids active.. Thank you so much for timely discussion. Professor ‘Bhuwan’. . God bless you. Welcome always.

This is easily believable with so many fast food restaurants, Nintendo, play station, hand held electronic games, lap tops, PC's, all this electronic equipment encourages more sitting than anything else. With all this in activity it's no wonder that we are seeing an increase in type 2 diabetes, and our children are getting heavier and heavier with each passing year.

i don't really think it can be blamed on fast food. people still have the free will to eat healthy if they choose or even cut back on what they eat. i make a habit of walking around the house and doing a little bit of chores before bed along with not eating for a while and it helps keep the weight off.

You are right about that, I know that for a fact obesity is growing in most parts of our world we should eat properly to avoid ourselves going into that of obesity. No one is doing to us we do it so if we don't control our eating habits then I am afraid we going to go the wrong way.

It is unfortunate, but true. We're getting more lazier, and if not lazier, we're doing tasks and/or jobs that require a lot of sitting and not enough physical labour. And in a stressful society, we have to rush out, grab a bite to eat at MacDonald's and rush back to our office. Then we get tired when we come home from work/school, and order out a pizza. I know a lot of us don't do this EVERY DAY, but there's an increasing number of people that are. To top this off, there's a Fat Acceptance movement, that celebrates the brave BBW's and BHM's that are out there, flaunting their fat. With this positive attitude towards obesity, there's an influx of "fat admirers" coming out of the closet, so to speak, leaving behind their thin-to-average significent others to hook up with a bigger person. It's really sad, and I just wish we can all catch ourselves, go back to healthier ways (and I'm not talking about fad diets, either!) and back to jobs/tasks that require daily physical labour. It has worked for thousands of years, I don't see why it won't keep on working today.

Yes, I agree with you. Obesity is now one of the greatest health hazards faced by mankind. One of the reasons is, of course, consumption of too much fastfood. Another important cause is lack of physical labour and growing inclination to more and more mental labour. I think it is high time to be aware of it, otherwise it will play havoc on human civilization in the near future.