“Obesity” A North American Problem

August 1, 2008

Statistics all across North America now indicate that 70% of all adults are overweight or obese. The statistics on overweight children is quickly on the rise. What is the reason for all this?

Our society today is very fast paced with little time to stop for a good nutritious meal. Instead we opt for the drive through window at any fast food establishment we can find and gobble down an unhealthy lunch or dinner loaded with calories. We haven’t time to eat properly and have little time for exercise so now we have loaded ourselves up with calories and no time to work them off. The outcome……those extra calories get stored as fat. How can we not help but put on weight if this is our lifestyle?

I encourage you to take a walk through your local park at lunch time on a sunny day and count the number of MacDonald boxes and wrappers you see floating around, not to mention Burger King, Harvey’s etc. These retail giants are smart marketers with convenient locations where you shop, work and play. The commercials on T.V. are a constant reminder to our children and when you ask them where they would like to go to eat I don’t have to tell you the answer. These places are okay once in a while as a treat for yourself or you children but a steady diet of this junk is a guarantee for packing on the pounds. The worse junk food of all is Kentucky Fried Chicken. The skin on chicken is loaded with fat so to add insult to injury they coat the stuff in lots of salt and spices and DEEP FAT FRY IT! Hours later after devouring this very popular junk food, floating along in your bloodstream are fat globules. Oh your poor heart and lungs. Close your eyes and just imagine what this looks like. I have actually seen this in a patients blood sample under a microscope. Imagine what a constant diet of this would do to your arteries, heart, lungs and as an extra added bonus your cholesterol level would,…. well you get the picture.

I think it’s time that we all took a hard look at what we eat and decide to make a life style change. We have to learn to relax and take time for ourselves, eliminate the stress as much as we can and start eating a more balanced diet. By making an effort to eat healthier and get more exercise our sleep is improved, we feel better and we look better. We are filled with more energy and function closer to 100% instead of 60%. Removing a lot of fat from our diets (certainly not all fat, it does have benefits) eating more vegetables, exercising will help us to live a longer and healthier life, not to mention establish good eating habits for our children.

I would like to see the statistics go down, wouldn’t you?

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