Why are so many Americans overweight?

In America 34% of people are obese, 32.7% are overweight, and 6% are extremely obese. Overweight means someone is over the average weight for your height and age. Obese means someone is excessively overweight. Some people argue the reason so many Americans are overweight, is because there's too many greasy foods, people's poor diets, and general laziness. These may be true, but the most important factor to obesity is people don't exercise!

There are a lot of greasy foods in America now a days, so as a result people eat more fatty substances. More fast food restaurants are being built in America, therefore, there are more greasy foods. If you go to a fast food restaurant most of the food there has probably been dunked in grease. More and more people are going to fast food restaurants because they’re on their way home from work. They just don't like to cook, or they don't have time, a quick fix is to just stop going and getting all that greasy food. Over 50 million people get fast food daily; that's a lot of greasy food. Now I'm not saying not to go get fast food every once in awhile, but if you’re in a hurry and are hungry stop and get a healthy sandwich, or cook some soup that's always good. A lot of us are lazy don't deny it; I admit I'm lazy too. The reason people are so lazy is that they like to sit on the couch and watch TV, sit on the computer, or even play video games. I bet while you’re sitting there your munching on a snack, probably chips. 48.3% of people sit 8 to 10 hours a day and 22.1% sit more then 12 hours a day if you add in sleep people only are on their feet 1 to 4 hours a day. If you’re not running, around during that time, you’re not burning the calories from all the greasy food you just ate. People’s diets are also a reason for obesity. Most people don't watch what they eat. People just eat what they want whenever they're hungry, bored, upset, lonely, and even mad. Some people eat around 4000 to 5000 calories a day. That is 2 times the amount that a grown man should eat a day.

The most important factor in obesity is people don't exercise. There are many reasons people don't exercise. I once heard someone say "the reason I don't exercise is because it hurts". I also hear people say "I'll go for a run tomorrow, I don't want to today", then the next day they say the same thing and so on and so on. You just have to do it. You can't procrastinate, because the longer you procrastinate the bigger you will get, and the harder it will be for you. Another reason people don't exercise is because they don't have time. I understand that people may work two jobs and get home late, but you have to have a day off. On that day, every week, work out. It’s better than nothing at all. People have to take their kids places all the time, there must be some time in the day you’re not running errands, or driving your kids. Get a video and do some cardio exercises before you go to bed. There are ways to work around the reasons you don't exercise, you just have to have the willpower to do it. If you love yourself why would you want to kill yourself? Being overweight and obese can take 10 years off your life.

There are a lot of reasons 72.7% of America are overweight, obese, or extremely obese. There are also many ways to work around the reasons you’re obese. To fix the bad in your life, you have to want to fix it. Do you like being obese, probably not, so try to fix it?