 Posted 10/29/2009 12:51:54 PM
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The media has used Obesity as the number one marketing tool in increasing revenues. There are countless, commercials, TV Shows, infomercials, articles and books that are used as channels of distribution for this market. The market has strayed from the simplicity of a healthy life into a more complex and quick fix solutions. Diets and skinny has become the new name brand.. no longer do we strive for eating the right food and exercising. According to this report we are in serious trouble if we do not contain this disease fast.
THE OFFICIAL FIGURES
60% of adults are overweight and 26% are obese
28% of children are overweight and 15% are obese
Obesity surgery on NHS has risen by 40% in the last year
60% of men, 50% of women and 25% of children will be obese by 2050 if no action is taken
So how do we get a hold of this situation?
Yes we know about the fast food and sodas, but is poverty one of the main reasons for the escalation of this disease?
Or are we making excuses and bad choices?
Blessup
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Posted 1/19/2010 6:14:30 PM
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| Poverty in its severe form wouldnt make you fat, you will be tough like gru-gru seed! Folks just bad choices....others say anything u eat is bad and they eat what they want and be happy......Well i try to eat goodish...
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Posted 1/20/2010 9:32:32 AM
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| I agree poverty in its severe form would not make you fat but declining financial returns will influence the food choices that are available to families. Thus greater portions of carbs would be eaten. Compare the price of rice with those of vegetables in the supermarkets or the price of sodas and the size of the bottle to a dozen oranges. Poor families have to make that dollar stretch. Generally though, poor or wealthy, our food choices will influence our overall health. In true Caribbean style we have inherited and fully embraced the "fastfood" and the sitdown culture. Plus our portions are now twice the original size. Our ancestors lived healthier lives not so much because they made better food choices but because they were more active. Walking was integral to their life and their children were always outdoors; climbing trees, playing hopscotch, hide and seek, moral, pan ah pan, cricket in the road, football etc burning the extra calories from that high carb meal of provisions and saltfish. Today, our children are couch potatoes, computer and nintendo addicts. Do they even know what pan ah pan is? Eating well and living healthy has to be a deliberate and an individual choice...love thy self first.
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Posted 1/21/2010 12:57:05 PM
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LOL LOl I laugh because I dont know what pan pan is, maybe we call it something different in Jamaica. On a serious note, the choices we made are the death of us. The laws don't change, for "every action there is an equal reaction", so you put shit in your mouth you will definitely spew shit out. As adults it is our given right to teach our children about healthy choices so that they will actually outlive us. At the rate that our Black community is going our children have the highest obesity rate than any other race. Wake up we are killing ourselves and our children!
Blessup
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