| The obesity epidemic is the most talked about subject | | | | and more time on things that contribute to the obesity |
| of the century. The overweight/obesity epidemic | | | | epidemic. Gone are the days where people come |
| affects over 30% of the population in the US and is | | | | home and cook a health meal or spend time on |
| now on the rise throughout the world. | | | | exercise. We all struggle with finding time with health |
| So one of the main question which is asked, is why | | | | eating and exercise. |
| are we a generations of people who are overweight. | | | | Once someone becomes overweight, one of the |
| We are a generation where our common practice/day | | | | places that shows the most visible fat is the belly (belly |
| is spent behind the computer and TV. Gone are the | | | | fat). This is due to the fact that the belly fat is one of |
| days where children come home from school and play | | | | the places which is first to accumulate fat. In order to |
| in the park or at the neighbours back yard. These | | | | lose weight in particular belly fat, one has to first of all |
| days children go home and play computer games, log | | | | educate themselves on the proper healthy diet as far |
| on to Facebook etc. We are much less active and this | | | | as what is right and what is not. The next step to take |
| is coupled with fast food leads to obesity. We eat | | | | is to become more physically active. This need not be |
| more high fat and carbohydrate diets because it is | | | | hard or expensive since one can jog or walk around |
| convenient and its easy. The problem being that then | | | | their neighborhood with little or no effort. |
| people are spending less and less time on their health | | | | |