I'm in agreement with you; I think obesity is a big crisis. And for what it's worth, 15 years ago in the UK you very, very rarely saw someone obese. And if you did see someone that overweight, if you got close enough to them to hear them speak, they were American.Originally Posted by Times Roman
Now obesity is commonplace here, and I regularly see people on mobility scooters that are on them because they are too uncomfortable when they walk (due to their size). If you go to a beach, almost all the men look perfectly normal from behind, but when they turn around there is a huge mass equivalent to an enormous watermelon that looks like was glued onto the front of them that is their gut. In the terms you used, their midsection is larger than their shoulders.
I go back and forth between the common lament that the issue is that people just aren't willing to deprive themselves of anything they want, and are greedy, and thinking it's a proper health issue, with these engineered foods hijacking people's brain chemistry in ways nature never anticipated such that people have an uphill battle to fight against it. Throw in something like depression and they don't have a chance. I don't know what the reason is, but it is dire indeed.
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