Blog #13 " XXXL: Why are we o fat?

In “The fattening of America” Eric Finkelstein states, that in the past few decades fattening food has become cheaper. Which, is the main reason of why most of the people are getting fatter by consuming oily foods instead of being eating healthy food, along with beverages that has dropped more than twenty percent than it was before. However, the lower price of food it’s not the only reason of why people are getting too fat nowadays.

The hectic schedule, because of a very busy schedule most of the people don’t have the time to eat and when they do they just swallow the food to go back to what they were doing on time. They either have enough time to cook fresh food at home and because of that they don’t have any other option than buy fast food. Where, I completely agree when the Finkelstein says that Americans become fatter because of cheaper food because that kind of food is very rich in bad fat that will help them to gain more weight.

The lack of exercise is another reason that helps people to gain more weight. Many people become lazy that they don’t even want to walk to the train station and they rather to take a cab to go anywhere. What’s more, the majority of people they rather to take the elevator instead of climb stairs. Including myself because it’s not that easy to go to the third floor by using the stairs than just take the elevator and don’t have to sweat. In general people rather the passive way than active way, which is not going to help to maintain a proper weight shape.

Nevertheless, as the author referred that “for most of the people, an ice cold coca cola used to be a treat reserved for special occasions”. Nowadays, its seems normal to have a couple bottles of coca cola in the fridge, just because of the big amount for a cheaper price. Many people don’t stop themselves to think that depends of what they put in their mouse it would be their body. This is the sad part; because of the ignorance they are just killing themselves by eating fast food and beverages such as “coca cola” when instead of have this killer in their fridge they should have a bottle of water that would help to weigh fewer pounds less.