Fast food

This YouTube is about a test of Mc Donald food. After I saw this I don’t want have fries at Mc Donald. I’ve seen full documentary of super size me. I was really shocked. But the problem is that although people do know how bad fast food is they keep having that food, especially for children. Especially in America obesity is really serious problem. Today in Korea, as we have accepted American cultures, we’ve had fast food a lot and it causes many kids to be overweight. But I think it’s not only Mc Donald’s fault because people already know about fast food. I think it is their choice.In Australia, it is considering to ban fast food advertise. Fast food ads usually target children who can’t control by themselves. Sometimes, children just want to have fast food because they can get a toy. I think Banning fast food ads is good idea because it’s true that kids and even adult whenever they see some food on Tv then more want to eat that. When we walk on the street we can find a lot of Mc Donald and Burger King ect. Those things are enough temptation for people.

Child Obesity

Obesity in childhood is become serious issue. Unlike with the past, most children prefer to play game on the internet and watch tv at home to do some outdoor activities.
Moreover, they really like having fast food rather than healthy food. According to the article I linked, it is said that childhood obesity causes Diabetes risk. I was surprised by this because I thought Diabetes is only for adult. I have a young brother who is 7. He also really likes having fast food or pizza something like this rather than Korean food. Although my mum does know it’s not good for him, she was just happy to see him having food. I think children can control them by themselves, parents should care and control what they eat and encourage them to do some exercise.

Weight Loss Surgery.

Gastric banding is one of weight loss surgery. Personally, I do not agree with this kind of surgery although there are some people who overcome obesity by doing this surgery. I think they can lose weight by doing some exercise and eating regularly. I don’t understand why they had to have surgery even thought there are some risks of that. Gastric bypass is also another weight loss surgery. By pouching out of upper stomach, the amount of food can be restricted. I’ve seen documentary tv program which is about two girls who had this surgery. Since they were child, they were obesity, so they couldn’t make a friend they couldn’t take part in any social event in school. They lost 10% weight 2 weeks after surgery. They said they were really happy. However I wonder why they didn’t try to lose weight when they were young and what their parents did.

Obsession of diet

As I said before a lot of people obsessed with diet even people who do not need to lose weight. I think it’s because of culture. Wearing XXS size is trend among women in Korea. So, most women want to lose weight and whenever I meet friends we always talk about diet. Recently most my friends in Korea are looking for a job. The problem is when they have a job interview, if they are even little bit over weight they are easy to fail the interview, because interviewer think the reason why they are overweight is because they are lazy. This kind of things cause obsession of diet. We try to eat food which is less calories sometime it causes more overweight and this kid of obsession causes Bulimia and Anorexia nervosa.
I have a friend who suffers from Bulimia. Whenever she eats something she always tries to throw everything up and she strongly believe that she will never gain weight if she does keep doing this.

Kelly Clarkson who was American Idol winner also suffer from Bulimia and she confessed it. She said when she missed out a role, she thought if she was prettier and cuter she could be a role. The doctor said people who suffer form it should be cared by other people they can’t stop throwing up what they ate by themselves.

Anorexia nervosa

I think people who suffer from it, because they are under constant pressure to fit a certain ideal of beauty. They think that as they are getting thinner and thinner, they become prettier and prettier. For men, they also want to have perfect body, and Someone with anorexia may not like her or himself, hate the way she or he looks, or feel hopeless. She or he often sets hard-to-reach goals for her or himself and tries to be perfect in every way. Moreover, famous tv or movie star make them to feel like wanting to thinner and perfect body. There are a lot of people who suffer from anorexia died. I heared that it is really difficult to recover it. They lost weight dramatically by throwing up everything what they ate although they don’t want to.. It is really serious problem.. I don't know when people started thinking thin body is perfect and ideal body.. I think this thinking should be changed.

There are some details about Anorexia nervosa in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa#Causes_and_contributory_factors

Welcome !

Hi everyone!

Welcome to visit my blog " Obesity and Diet"
I want to discuss about obesity or overwight and diet.

The number of People who are overweight in Asian countris have increased a lot because of chahging of their life style or food , even for children. This causes serious health problems..
But, sometimes people, who don't need to lose weight, still try to lose.. This is dangerous for their health as well.

What do you guys think about it ??