Fat Title moves from United States to Australia

William Atkins
Saturday, 21 June 2008 02:30

Science - Health

Some organizations involved with reducing obesity and helping people be healthier in their lifestyles are:

Shape Up America!: http://www.shapeup.org/

The Obesity Society: http://www.obesity.org/

International Association for the Study of Obesity: http://www.iotf.org/

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly): http://www.tops.org/

We didn’t have such large percentages of overweight people thirty years ago. Most of us, today, do not have a physically active professional life. We sit behind a desk rather than walking behind a plow horse.
When our ancestors walked behind a plow horse they grew fruits, vegetables, and grains from those farm fields and raised pigs, cows, and chickens for food and didn’t add preservatives and artificial stuff to them.

In other words, they ate highly nutritious foods, reasonable amounts of food, and exercised on a daily basis, out of a necessity to make a living.

Forty years ago, in addition, our ancestors didn’t have the large numbers of fast food restaurants that today pervade highly industrialized countries like the United States, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, etc. (Remember: get rid of one letter, "s," and "fast food" becomes "fat food".)

However, we are in a similar situation today as our ancestors were forty years ago. They were forced to exercise out of a necessity to make a living. Today, we need to make a serious effort to exercise and eat good food out of a necessity to stay healthy and avoid excessive health problems associated with being overweight.

It may be an international problem, but the solution lies within each one of us.