Britain: Are We Really Getting Fatter?

[Hecktix]

The Department of Health have released a report predicting that by 2010 one million children and twelve million adults in the UK, will be obese.
This could mean that 19% of boys and 22% of girls ages two - fifteen could be obese. "Well that's not many" I hear you say. But if you think about it, if you take 100 boys, and 100 girls, aged two - fifteen. Put them in a room. Forty one people in that room would be obese.

The questions I am asking you are, Why are we getting fatter, can we stop getting fatter and is there really any need for it?

Click Here for the BBC's Extensive Report

[brandon]

No offense, but I'm not really bothered if it's not me my friends or family that is fat. Of course I wouldn't wish anyone to be fat.

[laurenx]

Well,

If people start eating junk food..you can't really get them off it unless you go on a tv program etc. Some children get it from the parents, because there parents are slightly overweight, so yeah.

[Nixt]

This is a hard one to grasp really... I mean, what is it that causes all this obesity? Is it the couch potato "culture"? Or are fatty foods just considered more appealing. The whole fat thing confuses me, I mean... you get fat people that moan about being overweight, and unless it's not their fault, why get that way in the first place?
It's harsh I know, but true.

[DMB-Hosting]

Huh turning into the USA

[laurenx]

This is a hard one to grasp really... I mean, what is it that causes all this obesity? Is it the couch potato "culture"? Or are fatty foods just considered more appealing. The whole fat thing confuses me, I mean... you get fat people that moan about being overweight, and unless it's not their fault, why get that way in the first place?
It's harsh I know, but true.

How did 'junk food' come? I really dont know. But the UK can't be perfect "/

[Nixt]

How did 'junk food' come? I really dont know. But the UK can't be perfect "/

True. We can't be perfect! But I mean, it must be so hard for bigger people who are victims of bullying, who also feel depressed because they hate being fat.
We should at least try to stop it all before it gets out of control. I hate the way I have made it sound like a disease; but in a way, it is true.

[Hecktix]

How did 'junk food' come? I really dont know. But the UK can't be perfect "/

I think Junk food came along the same time as America became popular in the UK.
After the Second World War America had been a great help to the UK within both WW1 and WW2. This was the point where American "touches" were added to Britain. America's popularity in this country has only started to decrease over the past decade or so.

[xxMATTGxx]

Well i really dunno but im not fat.

[Blue]

basically it all really started with fast food companies trying to make the biggest profit so more came along like McDonalds, Burger King etc. The natural course is that they would expand out to different countries to capture the fast food market there