The Rising Scale Obesity is an ongoing health issue that is on the rise in America. Growing older, I see far more fast foods and snacks advertised on each corner, than my younger days. Within my own personal family, the struggles of weight seem never ending for relatives. Obesity is extra excess amounts of body fat in the body. There’s a whole combination of cholesterol, body mass, water, and other bodily fluids stored in the middle region of the body. Day by day they step on the scale; spending numerous amounts of money on weight loss programs; the look of insecurity when they stare in the mirror.
It makes me wonder what the solution is. I want to know how this obesity issue can really be solved. What plans are currently in process to help this epidemic? Does a person have to get fixed mentally as well as physically? From observation, I’ve watched those close to me have mental and social problems due to their weight. Over the years, even since the 1900s, obesity has been a pressured topic in society. There were times the media made it seem that being super thin was more attractive and even a little bloat in the belly was too much fat. A large sum of women started getting weight loss surgery. The known eating disorder, bulimia, was on the rise in America as more young women craved to be skinny. According to ABC news, more than half of Americans may be obese by 2030. That is an unpleasant thought. That means a skyrocket in diabetes, healthcare and social status. Depression will rise and news media will bring down even ore self-esteem. Complications from heart disease stroke diabetes and cancer can become severe. When people develop high blood pressure, fatal cancer the lingering heart attack, those around them gets affected also. I remember as a child visiting my mother in the hospital. I didn’t understand illness and health at the time and felt sad watching her sick lying in the bed. After coming home from surgery and healing, I was even more confused and surprised as I saw mom continue her eating pattern. She was digesting the same foods that got her hospitalized in the first place. I soon realized obesity isn’t just about eating too much or laziness.
It must be much more than that. I want to find the connections between food and people. I want to discover the emotional relationship with humans and the food we choose to eat or can’t stop eating. The health problems I mentioned use to be common among the older age group. It was expected to live great young, and eat whatever you desire. Now the times has drastically changed. It is normal now for a teen or even young child to get high blood pressure. Doctors are getting jobs to take on small children to counsel with food. The world’s focus is more on the generation’s unhealthy eating at home without enough physical activity. Obesity treatments alone costs America nearly $190 billion annually. That affects the nation economically, politically, and personally. Billions of dollars are being spent on weight loss programs, home gym machines, diet pills, and exercise equipment. Yet nearly half of the people end up gaining the weight all back. It’s interesting that although variety of “solutions” is being made, we as a whole are still struggling with losing weight and keeping it off. I am concerned about the well-being of my overweight parents and relatives.it not only affects them physically but mentally as well. Their health is slowly declining and the battle with weight is not getting better. I observe the tiredness they have, the weakness in the body, and the fed up attitude of always trying but not succeeding. I know that obesity can affect everyone even if you’re not the victim. We see the bullying and heard of weight jokes at some point in our lives. We all experience the change in food menus at our favorite restaurants. I see a new diet drink or sugar/fat free beverage monthly. Healthy snacks are now being placed right next to the candy bars and chips at the front of