Why are we fat? by Steven Schnur

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A patient asked me yesterday how did we get so fat as a nation. He was overweight and his family was too and he had come in at a young age of 42 for high blood pressure.

It seems as though everyone has the answers to this question, yet we are still getting fatter. So what is the answer? I believe that it is very complex and the reason we have gotten fatter as a nation does not have just one answer.

We are fatter because:

• We eat too much
• We don’t cook at home
• We do whatever is fastest and easiest- so we don’t take the stairs, we use the elevator etc.
• Our kids watch too much TV and video games.
• If we are not running around like chickens with our heads cut off, then we are too tired to do anything
• We shop for convenience foods, because they are fast and easy.
• We don’t make the time for ourselves.

These are just a sampling of reasons, but the bottom line is we have done it to ourselves and the reality is we are killing ourselves one pound at a time. It is a scary statistic that many of our children now will not live as long as we will because of weight.

What do we do? I think that we continue to get the message out and hope that it starts to sink in. It is the responsibility of doctors, teachers, parents, and everyone else that has a voice to show the nation what good nutrition is and hope that the message starts to be heard.

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