Being fat isn’t just caused by over-eating. That’s the number one cause, but depression and birth control (hormonal) also cause weight gain, so does stress, age and genetics. It’s very rare for people to have a legitimate illness that makes them magically gain weight, most of it is from over-eating and lack of exercise. However, our society is living off sugars,fats, and the most unhealthy things marketed as healthy, solely for convenience. Even things marketed as ‘fat free’ are sugar laden. Then you have thing’s like GMO’s, medications, and stuff that haven’t been around long enough to see what the long term affects on humans are.
Take for example the birth control shot Depo Provera. People who use that stuff are at risk for rapid unexplained weight gain, because the chemicals go to your brain and make you have unresolved hunger, not to mention it can cause infertility, breast cancer, and bone loss. I read a woman’s forum about birth control once, a few years back and some of the women there were saying they ballooned out of nowhere while on it. Then you have some medications like anti-depressants or anti-psychotics which make people very lethargic, hungry, and gain weight. 50% of American’s have a mental health issue at some point in their lives and maybe take medication for it. Some of it is genetic too. Basically most people are being lied to. The food they eat is not healthy, the drugs they take are not all safe and good for them, and most people are ignorant to how to deal with these issues. Rather than teach kids about sex, and birth control at inappropriate school ages, they should be teaching kids to be more active, and eat smaller portions and not be so quick to poison their body. Society is quite narcissistic.
It’s not just Americans either, visit Mexico or some parts of South America and see. Here in Europa we have lots of overweight people too. It’s becoming a ‘‘world issue’’ now rather than an American issue.
