Why is obesity on the increase in the UK?

In fact not just the UK, it is now classed as a worldwide epidemic.... but for what reasons?

Evidence based links would be good
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Shambo FFS behave yourself, i'm trying to do my homework here. Its a serious question.
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Fat kids becoming fat adults.
Each generation gets fatter and fatter

Bad eating habits are learned in childhood.

30 years ago there were less than half the number of obese children that there are now.
30 years ago we didn麓t have so much disposable income to spend on junk food and there wasn麓t such a huge range of crap available in the shops.
30 years ago people actually cooked their meals instead of eating pre-packaged rubbish.
30 years ago kids didn麓t spend so much time on their backsides.

Obese children deserve better. It麓s not their fault.

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnu...

The high fat and cheap food is readily available. It's more expensive to eat healthily, so it's more likely to find a a family of five dining on pizza and chips than it is to find them eating a balanced meal. Also, we're more sedentary with jobs infront of screens, everyone has a car, noone walks anywhere and kids aren't allowed to roam around on their own anymore so they feed their boredom - literally.

There's loads of stressed out people, always have been a few, and perhaps they deserve a bit of sympathy, but bad diet and lack of exercise causes it. It's not just down to being poor, I've been poor loads of times and generally get thinner. Too many people just eat and don't consider the consequences until it's too late. I'm not criticising people for it, if you live a certain way things happen. I said this earlier, there were loads of poor people in the 50s & 60s, but I don't remember many fat ones.

as life gets harder people turn for food for comfort and i's usually unhealthy food like takeways , chips ,pizza extra.
Also people are working longer hours to make ends meet so there is less time for exercise and as the week end approaches u can believe the fact u will be staying at home.
I personally the economic situation all over the world have contributed to obesity , people are cooking less period and cooking less healthy food and with the cost of fish , chicken and meat going up people are turning to spaghatties and breads etc.

Well to be honest the answer to this is really simple. Alot of people are busy at work and at the end of the day they dont want to bother cooking a proper healthy meal so they decide to get fast food or a ready meal- alot of people think ready meals are healthy but alot of them have lots of fat/calories in them. Its also due to people becoming lazy.. they cant be bothered to cook or work out. Im sure theres more reasons to this question but im pretty confident with these. Hope it helps :)

advance technology anf fast food.

Techmology advancing is a for a good purpose but the downside is that it's bringing everything to us and that is causing inactivity. Children no longer go out in play instead they are playing on the computer or video games. It's getting really bad. Also all the fast food places there is. Yeah it's up to each person whether to go or not but since there is a fast food place in every corner in America they have made it far more convenient for someone who is running late to stop and get something to eat on there way home, rather then go home and take longer cooking something to eat! plus all the aditves that there is in the meats and foods are killing us.!!!!

Longer working hours and convenient foods. Plus the food of today is full of chemicals and a very high fat content etc. But probably mostly because there is very little family life anymore, no more 'aprons' and healthy cooking, just dusty tables... It has become a fake world and obesity is the results...

well it,s obvious........it is lack of exercise...and the rubbish people eat today.......and people jump in the cars even to go to the corner shop.....and the kids get driven everywhere....again it,s obvious why people are obese....and another thing ... pcs and to much tv.....

People eat too much rubbish and spend too much time on their playbox 360's.If i were prime minister would get rid of stair lifts in old folks homes and replace them with hand operated pulley systems.I would then force the obese to manually operate these pulley systems until they lose 5 stone.

A number of reasons I think. Lack of exercise due to labour-saving devices and computers/internet, and increased availability of cheap, nutritionally poor, calorific food are the two main reasons I'd say.

too much grub not enough exercise. everybody just gets on public transport or jumps in the car to get any where most jobs are done sat behind a desk. its the modern world but so what have some cake get fat enjoy your life before you die

Too much fat in the diet , larger portions, too many ready meals, not enough fresh fruit and veg. Fizzy drinks, alchohol add to the problem.

common sense.

The government deciding to sell off school playing fields has undoubtedly had an effect - along with fast food, binge drinking (Lambrini) and sheer laziness.

People are either too busy or too lazy to cook home cooked food these days and rely more on ready meals and quick fix junk food. There is also a lot more junk food available now then there used to be.

I would say technology. washing mashines, cars, play stations, tellys, people eat out more, more fast food shops, more people probably drink.

Because families can only afford the cheap nasty food in their grocery shopping. They cannot afford to buy healthy eating products.

some of this might be linked to the lack of physical activities people engage in,even walking anywhere these days seems to much effort or is maybe too dangerous.

Too much processed food available . Years ago people made meals from scratch now its so much easier to buy ready made. Life styles are so much more laid back.

Hi Viper :)

Just reading this site, it has lots of statistics and some explanations of why we're getting fatter

http://www.obesitystatistics.net/causeof...

It's probably the United States fault somehow.

fast food is bad for you , but we all love it !

Because you guys eat too much and work too little.

Junk food and physical inactivity

well frankly because we don't get up our bum out and have a run,I mean i'm 8 stone and i'm only 12 but i've already loss 3 pounds just by increasing my exercise levels

mums giving in to morning kids i don't like we no that one and lots of grassing we start when we get up and they just dont stop

Go to any super market in the country and watch what the parents put in their trolleys, proof enough.

High speed internet + Fast food = Mega obese humans

Because people eat more crap and don't take so much exercise?

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