What do you think are some solutions to reverse the "age of obesity" that we now appear to be in?

Question

Do you think that people are just continuing to take the lazy option when it comes to their eating habits as there is a proliferation of fast food outlets and pre packaged meals?

Is technology a catalyst - with so many kids (and adults) spending hours at length in front of a computer monitor rather than out getting exercise?

Crikey - settle down people, I know it's not a disease and it is a lifestlye choice - I'm just trying to pinpoint how the western world got to this stage

Answer 1

Its amazing that people will complain about the price of fruit and vegetables (really they are pretty cheap) and then go and spend alot of money on takeaway gut rot. I think part of the problem is backlash from the anorexia fright years. There are actually not very many people with anorexia but they made such a big deal that everyone started to love up the whole big is better concept. As usual it all went too far. People now think on a whole new size bracket. The message should be eat to live - not live to eat. Eating should not be a social event, it should be just fuel for the body.

Answer 2

Two of the major reasons have already been stated. A third reason I have heard lately makes a lot of sense AC! People are staying in doors when it is hot we are sleeping better, and we don't sweat as much. When I was younger in the summer we would have lighter food [ things that did not need to be cooked] stay up and out doors later it would be to hot to sleep. It makes sense if you are old enough to remember the time before AC.

Answer 3

Carls Jr's has to stop making the Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger. Now that we've brought it up, I want one.

But really, smaller portions, with sensible meal calorie counts. Less beef (sorry, cattle industry, you bred cows for putting on pounds quickly, and some of that's spilling over onto the consumers).

Answer 4

I know what you mean.take away places should be made to only use the healthy oil & meal proportion should be cut down to smaller eating size & no more all you can eat places. .manufacters should be made to only use healthy ingredients in their food as well.make chocolates in small blocks same as potato chips,cut out the giant size packets if they are dearer people will just use rubbish food as a treat,not an every week thing & all that may help

Answer 5

Rebecca,

This is my personal opinion, based on experience and observation. About 7 years ago, my wife got breast cancer, and she decided to forego being poisoned and irradiated. I studied all the alternative treatments, and we went with nutritional therapy. The cancer went away, from eating mostly raw foods. When people eat mostly cooked food, the nutrients are largely destroyed, or rendered useless and toxic. We are starving ourselves of nutrition, and stuffing ourselves full of useless material. Our bodies are craving nutrition, so they send signals to our brains, telling us to eat. We eat more useless garbage, as we are dying of malnutrition. We get fatter and fatter, as we die of malnutrition. Check out the Weston Price Foundation, and Living-foods.com. You can reclaim your health, and grow to be a very healthy senior citizen. It is not unusual for people who live on raw foods, to be active at over 100 years of age.

Answer 6

Personally, if you want to be a pig and eat yourself to death, when a third of the world starves, go ahead. But don't expect me to pay taxs to treat you on the NHS just because you've no self-control.

Its not Polo, for godsake. I wish peopel would stop calling it an 'Epidemic'

Answer 7

Seal our mouths for 23 hours per day.

Answer 8

It's not always about what people eat. Some people have medical problems that cause it. We should think about that.

Answer 9

Maybe give tax insentives for either being in shape or for losing weight.

Answer 10

um....SELF-CONTROL?


MEDICAL PROBLEMS MYASS!!!!!!!!! THESE FAT BASTARDS HAVE NO SELF-CONTROL!!!