Why are there so many overweight and obese people in the U.S.?

Question

Apparently 60% of the American population is overweight and half of those are obese. I'm pretty sure that these statistics are correct; why is this so? I find it disgusting that one of the richest nations on earth, one of the few in which good nutrition is attainable, has descended to gluttony and sloth. Millions of people are gorging themselves on cheap snack food while hundreds of thousands are dying every week from lack of food/nutrition in poor countries. I realize that there are some genetic diseases that cause obesity, but seeing as this problem is only confined to America and several other countries (methinks the UK is also experiencing this problem), it is not the main root.

Sorry, that I misrepresented the obesity problem in the UK. It is indeed mainly childhood obesity. Also, so far laziness does seem to be a logical answer.

Answer 1

Why? Because of lazyness. I believe people from the past periods were thin because they walk and do a lot more physical activities than today.

Answer 2

1. We walk a lot less than people in other countries and are chained to our desks at a much higher rate than Europeans. When you're working yourself to death, you're more likely to hit vendoland for lunch and/or dinner (I've watched the sun rise, set and then rise again from my office on more than one occasion). Some places have a gym on campus (like my office) which is great but a lot of places do not.
2. Good nutrition isn't affordable for every one. If you're a single parent on a budget, you're going to buy the super size bag of doritos before you buy four apples because you're spending the same amount of money but the doritos will go a lot farther.
3. We have a lot more preservatives and other things that increase the calories but have no nutritional value.

Answer 3

Black women persons are obese because of many aspects, melancholy being one and maximum useful..Our diets, does not count how long we've been in the Americas, maximum of our ancestral history is that of a vegetarian,s our bodies won't be able to digest beef and work out won't eleviate the severe proportion of rigidity and melancholy...So exercising is often solid, this is no longer a "undesirable nutrition regimen", purely no longer the main suitable one for our genetic makeup...We additionally weren't meant to digest cows milk, that's why we are lactose illiberal in greater possibilities than different race/ethnic group. beef is an outright dying sentence to our bodies...yet which will take reported and precise advice being thrown available, no longer call calling and talks approximately comfortable hair...this is no longer purely like the slave proprietors had any situation that we will not be waiting to preserve their nutrition regimen or beef products, so it grew to grow to be area of our lifestyle...yet that grow to be then and this now...advice is the foremost...no longer insults... precisely! this is no longer purely a Black factor in the country, White individuals are extra obese than their ecu opposite numbers in the 50-70& percentile... EDIT: no longer purely like the ineffective wind blowers on how something are others fault...maximum clever human beings understand that our nutrition is likewise injected with corn syrup, estrogen and different fat appealing chemical for mass production..that's why diabetes is an all time severe around the board...So understand this is no longer how plenty they consume it quite is the identifying aspects, this is the prevalent of the nutrition obtainable at present and organic and organic and wild oat markets is expensive...

Answer 4

Here are a number of factors:

Availablity of cheap, low-nutrition food
Lack of exercise
Stress
Boredom
Laziness (I've actually heard people say they only want to live in one-story houses because they don't want to have to climb up and down stairs)
No real incentives for getting exercise. Many communities have no sidewalks and they are laid out in such a way that it would be difficult and time consuming to walk to a neighbor's house that might only be a block away.

Answer 5

American food is just that good... and with all this technology people get lazier and lazier. There are excuses for some, such as diseases and conditions. For the rest of us... it's all the food and lack of mobility.

Answer 6

...it is a lot of reasons, fast food, drive thrus, delivery...America makes it too easy to get fat. Healthy food is usually costs more and sometimes doesnt taste as good(subway turkey sandwich $7)(i think it tastes better) Fast food is cheap and for the most part, is really good(McD double cheeseburger 99cents)

Answer 7

no in the uk its childhood obesity thats a prob and ya its a main root n ot just an american problem

Answer 8

less excercise due to too much t.v., videogames, internet

bigger, cheaper portions of food that is not good for you

if more and more people look overweight then there's less indication that it's a problem

Answer 9

A lot of people started to move their legs less and the jaw more.

Answer 10

because americans love food & eat way too much........mmmmmmm good stuff.
oh yeah & are to lazy to spend any time at the gym.

simpleminded answer but just the way it is.