Americans Still Battling Obesity at Record Rates

Apparently our war on obesity here in the US is yielding smoe pretty lackluster results as far as actual effectiveness at reducing people’s body weight. You’d think with the awareness of how important it is to stay trim and fit being at all time that we would all be walking around eating the healthiest, lowest cal fare we can get our hands on.  However, that is not the case.  Americans are still battling the bulge, and it seems that we are actually getting fatter, not thinner as desired.

Not only that, there is a definite disparity between races and also between socioeconomic class when it comes to obesity. The poorer experience obesity more, and it appears that african americans and those with hispanic background tend to be obese more often.  This may have everything to do with income, however, there are also plenty of people who are wealthy or in the middle class as well who are obese or overweight, it just happens to be in higher concentrations in certain populations.

What might help explain this disparity is the fact that cheap food is usually higher in fat, preservatives, and sodium and sugar. This may account for part of the fact why those that cannot afford the better, healthier foods like organic veggies and less process, more “whole” foods turn to less expensive, and much lower quality foods that tend to lend themselves to obesity.

It also may be more accepted in these populations to be obese or overweight, but that is probably it’s own study!