obesity and fast food

I have short time ago read an article - I still search it - which blames fast food and the sweet (mainly brown) frizzy soft drinks as main reason for obesity of children and young people. It was an American study. Here in Germany it is the same. So I think, one must really watch out to not consume too much fast food, specially when the lifestyle otherwise tends to less moving in addition. Fast Food usually contains more calories and less vitamins. The calories must be burned, but with less vitality persons tend to relax rather than move. This is a viscious circle which leads to obesity.

Fast food is just one thing that adds to the problem. It is certainly not the entire problem. I know of many people who eat fast food all of the time and have no problems with obesity. I also know people who never eat fast foods who are obese. Another problem I see these days is that we do not seem to be as active as we once were. When I was a child, we ran around and played outside, regardless of the weather. If it rained, we put on our raincoats and went out anyway. We played outside in the snow. These days, it seems the activity level has dropped drastically. Children want to sit and watch TV, play games or read rather than go outside and play. Children and adults alike need to get more exercise into their lives as well as eating a healthy diet in order to help combat the obesity issue. It cannot be blamed on any one thing.

I believe that fast food is one of the causes of obesity. It is for the most part non-nutritional, addictive and certainly contributes to heart disease and high blood pressure. It is high and sugar and salt as well as greasy. Too bad that much of it is appealing to so many people. Fast food tastes good to many people and is very convenient. That is the greatest detriment of all.

We should not completely blame fast food for Obesity. Along with these joints each individual and their eating habit is also reponsible for this issue .

I can relate to visting a home country and out of nowhere its become Westernized!!!! i went back to thailand 10 years ago and to my disbelief- they had McDonald's, Roy Rogers/Hardees, a Friendly's restuarant...Fatty American restuarants and a majority of Thai people are slim so I wasn't too happy to see this trend happening- I also think that you can't just blame the food, its daily habits that contribute too, like too much TV watching and not enough exercising!!

I don't think that fast food is responsible for obesity. I think that people eating fast food irresponsibly are directly responsible for their own obesity. People have as much a right to eat fast food as they have a right to go to the gym once in a while and burn that fat. I personally love McDonalds and Jack in the Box but I also have the sense of responsibility to be active and exercise enough to not get fat. I hope the fat people of the world will lay off the silly blame game, get off their butts and exercise along with eating responsibly one day.

i thinks thats one factor but its peoples choice to eat what they want and they just dont care about what and how they will look until they found themselves look like elephant.