why is there so many fat/overweight people in the nation?

Question

maybe eat fast food too often. any comment?

Answer 1

maybe because people do not cook at home anymore i go to fast food places maybe once in a few months sad thing is when my son becomes an adult will he find a woman who actually knows how to cook or will she take him thru the drive thru god i hope not

Answer 2

Because they have gotten away from traditional basic home cooking with basic traditional foods. Everything is either from a fast food drive thru window or nuke & serve at home. Now add to that the lack of physical activity and you have weight gain. Too much armchair entertainment doesn't help either.

Answer 3

Exactly! Americans work long hours and look to fast food as a quick way to feed the family on the run. Then, at home, the over-worked American Mom and Dad don't want to be 'the bad guy' by telling their child they can't have more cheese doodles or mac'n'cheese, or whatever, because then they wouldn't have a peaceful 3 hours before bed. I guess it's easier to let your kids have whatever they want instead of giving your child the gift of health. So many of my daughter's classmates are fat, it's really sad. I feel really bad for the over-weight children that get teased. It's not the child's fault, it's the parent's.

Answer 4

I posted this here a while ago, and it bears repeating to illustrate how easy it is to become """fat""".

"Let's look at the science of it, specifically the calories.

"You can eat 250 extra calories a day-- which is only one candy bar or a 20 oz bottle of soda; very little, really-- and gain two pounds every 4 weeks, or 26 pounds a year. At that rate, in just 4 years of very slight snacking or overeating, you can pack on 100 pounds.

"Contrary to popular thought, you don't have to eat a 12 pack of donuts and a 5 pound sack of sugar a day to become morbidly obese. A decade of the very slight overeating I described can put you 200 pounds plus overweight.

"Scary, huh???"

Answer 5

no one takes there kids outside to play anymore, how many kids do you see outside riding bikes or playing on swing sets. We are taught to stay inside and watch tv, or play video games, so we all become couch potatoes. Kids dont know how to cook, I have 3 boys and none of the girls they have dated know how to cook, but all kids know the numbers for take out and delivery by heart. Why do people blame fast food? no one forces you to go there.
Theres no family value anymore. Most familes dont sit down to dinner together. America needs to get back to Holidays off, at least the major ones so families can become families again.

Answer 6

Because fastfood is cheap. and the USDA has allowed farmers to use all kinds of bad hormones into the animals food and that is why kids are growing faster whenit comes to puberty.
Also tv doesn't help lazy people. they eat a lot and then sit down at the tv and become couch potatoes.......

Answer 7

Fast food manufacturers have a lot to answer for. They put inordinately large amounts of sugar, salt, cholesterol and preservatives in food.
Another nightmare is the practice of raising chicken and beef by feeding them growth hormones. Such hormones stay int he food chain and fatten us as well. Wake up people!.

Answer 8

Fast food, TV, computer games and a whole lot of lack of exercise.

Answer 9

Beacause of fast food like you said and technlogy is growing so people stay inside and play computer/videogames/or watch TV instead of going out side and being active, which keeps people fit.

Also It is so much easier to eat chips then it is to grab an apple.

Answer 10

i think people have trained theirselfs to stay up on technology and use their computers more play more games nd watch more tv then ever i love my computer but i try to limit my time except for work lol and fst food is so much quicker then coming home to cook some also is genetics but we as a whole need to exercise more and eat healthier food. i am into organic foods herbal medicines and exercise it depends on the person i think