During chapter 10 we learned about motivation and the motivation that make someone to eat. When someone eats too much they can become overweight and even obese. Obesity can be genetic or even just lack of exercise. I have a cousin who is extremely obese. She is nine years old and is over 200 pounds. The roots of her obesity are both genetic, environmental, and lack of exercise.
My cousin Leah has a mother that is also very obese, which is where she gets her genes from. Also not only does she have her genes, she observes what her mother eats and eats accordingly. When we are at thanksgiving she won’t go to get vegetables, fruits, mashed potatoes or anything, she goes straight for all of the desserts. With her mother not being a good role model, she thinks that eating like this is ok. She also lacks an adequate amount of exercise. She is involved in softball, but she doesn’t try that hard because when she does she gets tired too fast, needs a break, and gets behind everyone else.
For all the people out in our world who are obese like my cousin, should watch Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. He shows how eating healthy can be fun and gives out great recipes that make eating healthy tasty so children of this generation don’t have to suffer from health problems like diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension.
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And yet it can't be all genetic, right, because as a society our obesity rate has skyrocketed in the last decades. Most blame it on convenience eating of fast foods... But as we heard in the stress interviews, inactivity is also obviously a big part of this epidemic. We're a lazy society! And role modeling good eating habits is such an important factor.
ReplyDeleteDon't you love Food Revolution?!