Obesity on the Rise

Obesity is when people gain too much weight, and become oversized. It can cause discomfort to people in the surroundings. This is a common problem faced by the modern world. This is found in every country in the world. This is a very dangerous condition.

One reason for the cause of obesity is that people do not know about the nutrition in what they eat. There is a lot of food with negative nutritional value. Some foods are good in nutritional value, but should be eaten in small quantities. For example, a 100g bar of chocolate has about 500 calories, that is a quarter of energy, that is required by an average person for a day. Many people think, that the size of the food is small, so it won't do any harm to them, therefore, they will eat a large quantity of that food. The food can contain a lot of energy, that they may not burn in one day. This extra energy will be stored as fat, therefore, overtime these people gain weight. Lack of knowledge is a reason for obesity.

Another reason for obesity is temptation from external sources. People can be easily tempted to eat food. Companies such as McDonald spend billions of dollars to expose this weakness, and tempt people to try their food. This is done in the form of advertising. People try these food, and become addicted to them. People also can be tempted by friends and family members to eat food that they do not want. Temptation is another reason for obesity.

Obesity leads to many problems. Obesity decreases a person’s age of mortality. The complications resulting from obesity are: heart diseases, strokes, high blood pressure, punctured blood vessels, and inability to walk. Obesity causes problems to the general public, such as discomfort to passengers in buses and trains. Obesity costs a nation millions of dollars in health care, obesity related complications, and making public places suitable for obese people, such as large chairs, and heavy duty escalators and elevators. Obesity is a problem that a nation’s government and citizens should be concerned about.

Obesity can be solved by educating people on the matter, and making them do exercises. When people are educated, they will know, what they should eat, and what they should not eat. They will also know, what quantities to eat. Exercises help to burn off extra food, that they have eaten. This will help these people reduce weight by helping them burn more energy that the energy, that they had gained for that day. Education and exercises is the solution for obesity.

Obesity is a common problem faced by all the countries. There are many reasons for obesity, but lack of knowledge is the main reason. Education and exercises will help to put an end to this problem