Obesity Crisis! Solution?

I don't think that people can be blamed at all, because it is very hard to lose weight when you have got into the habit of eating so much food and not doing any exercise. It is a little bit like giving up smoking, because you will be used to going into the kitchen and getting a snack, and then eating it whilst watching television, and it is very hard to stop that habit and break the cycle. You can convince yourself that you're hungry when you're just bored, so you will get something to eat when there is no need for you to do so really. There are so many machines that we now use which mean that we don't have to do all that much exercise. One is the car, and now that everybody has one, hardly anybody will walk anywhere. In the past, before machines would take over, everyone would have to walk to the shops and then carry the heavy shopping bags home with them. Now, when we want some shopping, we either go in the car, or we don't even bother doing this and we just order it on the internet and get somebody else to deliver it to us. There aren't many physical jobs in this country now, and the majority of people will work at a desk using a computer, which has meant that literally hardly anyone is having to move to do their work. Well done for you joining the gym. It is great that you have decided to make the change, because you will feel a lot better when you start to see the changes in your body that will be so positive. I can never decide whether it would be a good idea to increase the price of junk food or not. Part of me thinks that this is a good idea as people would no longer think that it is the cheapest option, but then another part of me just thinks that if people have the choice, they would rather spend the extra money on the junk food and then cut out the little cash that they would have previously spent on healthy food. Also, I'm not sure whether it is fair on the people who eat healthily most of the time and then would like a treat every so often. If they have to pay more money for junk food that they're having as a treat then this might mean that they don't have as much money as they might like, which is obviously not a good thing. But certainly something does have to be done to make sure that more people can get hold of healthy food if they wish to.

Yes, what all you just said is absolutely right! Well, even when I am bored and have nothing to do, even I move out to the kitchen in search for something to eat. Lol! I shouldn't do that but as you said, we really can't help it. I definitely don't hog on stuff, but when I am BORED, I can't stop myself. But you know what, I actually think that even if we are a foodie, we should do more exercise along with having all kind of food. Once we eat up something, let it be anything, especially any unhealthy food, then we should certainly go and do some kind of heavy physical activity that can burn up all the calories we took in. And thank you! I certainly feel a lot better after joining the gym. Everyday after I am done with my exercise, I feel so active and energetic. I think that even an healthy person who doesn't have to lose any weight should do some kind of exercise to stay fit! I have come across many people who are slim but are not able to stretch properly and are really weak! I sometimes wonder that we people think a lot about what has to be done but the government who actually has to take all the initiatives, doesn't do anything about it, sadly. But one day or the other, they'll surely have to do something about it!

There are very few people who have genes that make them overweight. The only reason that you will get entire families who have a weight problem is because it is all of them who eat too much food. If anything, I think that people who talk about genetic dispositions are causing even more problems, because you will then get people who are overweight and think that they can do nothing about it so therefore just don't even bother trying. I love chocolate and crisps, and fast food, but I learned that if I want a healthy body, there are things that you just can't eat all of the time. Food can be an addiction just like anything else, but it is perfectly possible to overcome that addiction and then live in a healthy way for the rest of your life. You make a good point about parenting classes for people who have other problems, and I think that everyone should be given help to overcome issues that they have. And, actually, there are classes that you can go to if you're an obsessive spender, and I believe that they can be very useful.

The thing is though, people only need to eat enough food so that they can carry out their daily activities. If your body is storing fat, then it means you're eating too much food as simple as that. If you have intolerances then that's another matter and obviously you need to cut those things out of your diet for your own health. We need education about what we can and can't eat in order to keep our bodies healthy. Everyone needs different things, so the same diet won't work for everyone, it's all about finding what is healthy for you, not what is okay for everyone else.

You are lucky that you have never had to experience being overweight, but I think that it gets harder to remain a healthy weight as you get older, and that means that you have to really be careful about how you approach things. When you say that you think that it depends on how much you care about your life, I think that it can be a bit more complicated than that. Because I always cared about my life very much, and I always hated what I was doing to my body, yet it never stopped me from eating foods that I knew were bad for me, and I just couldn't seem to break the cycle. Nobody seemed to care, there was nobody to support me, and that was one of the reasons I took so long to get a hold of my life.

Yes, something certainly does have to happen about the prices of junk food. If something doesn't change now, we are going to end up with a world that just eats junk food and is unable to know how to cook foods that are good for us. This obviously isn't a good thing, but the government only seem to be worried about the things that are going to be making them money rather than things that might end up with them losing a little bit of money in the short term while they lower the prices of healthier foods in the shops.

A lot of people say that they are larger because of genetics reasons, because their family are all on the large side, however it is more likely due to the fact that you all eat the same foods rather than that you're predisposed to be overweight. The fact is that we should only eat enough food to be able to power our own bodies, and if we are storing food as fat then the simple fact is that we don't need to be eating as much food. This is something that people don't seem to understand, and not everybody does need to be eating the same amount of food in order to keep themselves healthy.

I agree that children are nowhere near as active as they might have been in the past. One thing that people don't seem to realise about food is that if they're not going to be doing as much physical work during the course of a day, then they don't need that same amount of food. Back in the past, when a lot of people would be doing physical work, obesity wasn't very much of an issue, and this is something that I think the government should be looking at. Children should be outside playing games rather than being stuck inside and playing games on the computer like a lot of people seem to be these days.

Every citizen in the country should be taught with it. Even they become parents or not with family it will helpful. Also it will build a healthy future society in that country.

I can't even begin to think about the things that the government has spent too much money on when there should be better things to deal with. There have been so many campaigns for healthy eating, but yet they don't bother to take into account that people don't have the money to be buying these things. Something that they should think about are healthy ready meals. They have things that you can just put in the microwave; but why not put healthy food in there instead! They could also make small fruit pots with healthier options in them, but the thing is they need to think about the money. I think that a lot of people would be willing to eat better foods if they were more cheaply available.

My doctor has never been particularly supportive with my weight loss. I think she's one of those people who believes the weight is a personal issue rather than a medical one, so she never even bothered to weigh me. Although I was very overweight, she never bothered to even broach the issue, and the only reason that I managed to lose the weight myself was because I'd noticed that it was having an effect on my overall health, not because she had noticed. I have noticed that a lot of people use the TV as a babysitter these days, and it makes me unhappy to see the number of children who are placed in front of the screen with junk food. They might not think that there is anything wrong with it, but children learn to get into very bad habits, and that is one of the things that is so wrong with the way this country works. Back when I was growing up, children would play outside in the street with other children, and parents would take them to the park. this is something that just doesn't happen now. My primary school has recently had to sell its field to a housing developer because it couldn't afford to keep it cut for the children. So there is no sport there, and because there is nowhere for the children to play, they make the school day a lot shorter and let the children go home early. It would be okay if the children could be able to play out when they get home, but we all know that it just doesn't happen that way anymore. When I go into my local supermarket, I too see that you can get a frozen meal that would feed four people for around £1, which is much less than you would have to pay if you chose to get fruit and vegetables and cook dishes from scratch. In my opinion, this is something that needs to be changed. Also, children aren't being taught how to cook properly. Parents are so busy now that they're coming home and cooking dinner quickly rather than taking the time to show their children how they should be cooking. So when children leave home and have to cook for themselves, the only thing that they know how to use is the microwave. This is something that really does have to be addressed, and I hope that the government are going to get around to it at some point because I don't like the way that the world is heading.

I think that there is a lot of information from people about metabolism that might not be entirely correct. Although some people might indeed digest their food quicker than others, I think that the effect that this might have on someone's weight has been largely over estimated in reports in the past. If you want to burn a pound of fat, you have to burn 3,500 calories more than you've eaten, and this is always going to be the case no matter how fast your metabolism is. Your body is like a machine like a car, it uses food for fuel, and the people who believe that they have a slower metabolism might be shocked to find that actually, they eat a lot more than they think they do, or they don't do as much exercise as they previously thought.