What Are the Reasons Behind the Obesity Epidemic?
It’s pretty much accepted that there is an obesity epidemic taking place. For the first time in human history, there are more overweight people, than there are starving people. There are a number of factors as to the reasons why more and more people are gaining weight. The point is that no one thing will solve this problem. Unfortunately some of the factors are beyond the control of most of us, and the chances of this epidemic retreating, seem to be fairly small. Below are some things that you may want to think about. First of all, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that we have become less active in our daily lives. In our places of work, where much of the production of goods used to be done manually, are now one by machine and computers. Where we used to spend a lot of or free time outside, we now stay inside our homes for most of the time. This is because we have so many ways to entertain ourselves at home. Many people spend up to 40 hours a week just watching television. Most of
