Obesity is a BIG problem, just like 'climate change'. Society and our lifestyles are said to be the blame for it. Our current lives consisit of just sitting around watching TV or on the computer and not taking in enough exercise, and eating the wrong 'type' of food. The topic is serious. By 2050, if the current trends continues 60% of men, 50% of women and 26% of children will be overweight. 'It has taken roughly 30 years for people to get the message that smoking is bad' and maybe the same in trying to tackle obesity. Clear evidence of campgains encouraging, children especially, to go out and get exercise. For example, the Shrek characters were used in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advert in a bid to tackle the issue and by using children's favourite Shrek characters to help persuade them. (I have already touched on this issue on my other blog: http://chintan-shrekthethird.blogspot.com/2007/09/shrek-health-advert.html)The evidence that people of the UK are becoming more obese as in the 1950s due to traditional labour-intestive work i.e. ironing, washing, walking to the shops etc. women burned up three times more calories than women of today.
Technology is a big blame for obesity in that by technology making tasks labour saving it requires humans not to work as much and so burn of less calories. Also the arrival of TV changed our lifestyles.
British Nutrition Foundation- "I those days, we ate healthly. Now we have fast foods and convience foods".
- BBC 60'Clock News (Wed 17th Oct 07) and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7048763.stm
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