BE CAREFUL with your weight!!

Slowly Dying? Is Obesity Affecting You Too?

Many people are suffering from unnecessary chronic illnesses as consequences due to their weight being at the obese level. The United States has over a period of time grown into a problem that has led about 35% of adults and 17% of children to be obese at least according to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention. The worst part of it all is that it just keeps growing and both adults and children are suffering from diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, joint problems, and psychological problems.

What is the root issue of this growing dilemma? We hear experts and doctors say that we need to make sure that our kids are eating the right foods and getting some sort of physical fitness activity every day. There may be many causes that are bringing children to become bigger and sicker and one of the issues is the food that we are feeding our kids and ourselves. The access to healthy foods is ridiculously high in price and people prefer to pay cheaper on food products not realizing that in the end they will just be paying higher costs. The costs of fatal health conditions and insurance can be detrimental especially if the individual finds paying a visit to the doctor’s office often.

Targeting what the problem by figuring out what the causes is not that simple since the reasons why people have issues with obesity varies from person to person. We cannot assume but we can definitely see a negative correlation among adults and children who watch too much television and are not involved in physical fitness. The interesting part of it all is that parents and the school systems play an important role in the child’s life and yet even though we see more involvement in doing something it is not enough.

Corporations and food industries are making huge money off of us and they are not helping the situation. When paying for our food products we see all kinds of junk food and non-nutritious food items, which kids throw tantrums for which unfortunately makes the parents buy the products because they don't want to be seen as the bad parent. The problem is that they do not realize that they are being bad parents buy falling into the food industries trap and making the kids fat. It s not fair that we are to a certain degree being bullied by these corporations since all they seem to care about is the consumer’s money. According to Krystle M. Davis from the the book review, The Food Industry Made US Fat, 7.5 billion is spent anually on advertising and following up with $375 million being the number that is needed to start the work. 

We need to hurry and become aware as grocery shoppers as well as do our part as parents and community members by making sure that the school system is involved. We need to bring the nightmare issue to a low or better yet diminish a problem that once did not exist or least not as high and especially not among children.