Facts on Obesity: It's an epidemic spreading through out developed countries.
The facts on obesity are clear, it's on a rampage because food is cheap and abundant, and physical activity is an option more and more people are ignoring. In other words, there is an growing international culture of recreational eaters and couch slugs. The culture of fat is on the rise in developed countries. More than half of Americans are overweight, nearly one third suffer obesity. With rates of adult and childhood excess fat increasing, authorities view it as a serious public health problem. As a consequence, each year over weight people are blowing billions of dollars on dieting, diet foods, diet books, diet pills, and other pie in the sky products in the battle against excess fat (most fat people want a fit body, they just don’t want to exercise and give up recreational eating to get it.) But here's the big problem. The facts on obesity are; we spend another $45 billion on treating the diseases as a result of obesity. Excessive body fat is associated with many chronic diseases; particularly cardiovascular diseases, but there are many others including diabetes mellitus type 2, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis. The facts on obesity are alarming; 80% of all health care costs are from people who are over weight and it's getting worse. Between 1980-2000, being grossly over weight among adults has more than doubled; and among adolescents has tripled. In the US, being fat is the second-leading cause of preventable death after smoking. Hard to believe but true; people keep on consuming massive amounts of junk food and sodas and the problem gets bigger and bigger (no pun intended). Obesity costs businesses an estimated $20 billion loss in productivity each year from employees absence due to illness caused by being too fat. Want evidence of this; just go the hospital and look around at the people waiting for appointments. Most will be fat with some sort of chronic disease. So start to connect the dots everybody; the facts on obesity are clear. Being fat hurts the economy, increases healthcare costs and shortens your life. Listen to your heart; start eating healthy and start burning fat with a walking program or a running program. Just do something. You'll be a better employee, spend less time at the doctors and live a longer more full life. Not a bad trade off for burning off a bunch of unwanted fat. Just remember, you can’t lose all that excess body fat over night, but you can lose it over time. Your happiness, your health, your life is worth the effort; just get off the sofa and start treating your body like the temple it is, instead of a dump for all that processed crap you've been eating. Smiles…Gigi.
Back to Top of Facts on Obesity
Back to Calculate Body Fat
Back to Best Way to Lose Weight - Home Page
|
