Where do I start with this? This is something that is getting worst in our society today and to be honest it’s going get a lot worst. I mean Irish men already have the highest body mass index in Europe, while Irish women rank third. Ireland is set to become the most obese country in Europe. This is not just an Irish problem but it makes me wonder what and why this is happening especially where there are more gyms health clubs and self-conscious people out there taking care of their body, more personal trainers lots of sports. Is there too much choice these days? I mean me growing up as a kid there was no obesity crisis here in Ireland and now we are up there with the highest in Europe. It’s scary, to be honest, or are we a nation that have addictive personalities.?
Almost one-fifth of the world’s obese adults (118 million) live in Ireland and five other high-income English speaking countries Australia, Canada, New Zealand the UK and the USA. One-quarter of the world’s severely obese adults living in the same six countries.
The number of obese people worldwide has risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014. Countries like Singapore, Japan and European countries such as Belgium, France and Switzerland had virtually no increase in BMI over 40 years. Why is that?.
For me, this is the scary part 1 in 4 of our children are overweight. This is serious because overweight children are more likely to become obese adults. And that’s when the problem really starts. And the thing is some parents don’t realize that their children are not at a healthy weight. But who do we blame the parents, society? Are we turning into a nation of zombies with or Play Stations, video games, facebook Snapchat Mr Google. Ya to me these are all to blame and the sad thing this seems to be the norm. Is it?.
I know myself as a parent it’s hard not to give in to giving our children treats we are all guilty of that. But if parents are giving their children crisps, fizzy drinks sweets fried food regularly well then stop because you are damaging your child’s health, there are plenty of healthy treats out there. Going back to my childhood we had a lot less especially in material things like internet so no facebook for us so for me less was more 🙂 We eat potatoes nearly every day and now it’s don’t eat too much potatoes they’re bad for ya, eat sweet potatoes instead and brown rice etc, sure our parents ate potatoes all there lives and there was no obesity problem that time. And I’m not saying eat potatoes till they come out your ears, I am just making a point. I think there is too much scaremongering out there regarding food by these so-called experts. We used to be out more galavanting around the streets as my mum use to say if you asked a child now did they ever raid an orchard they would look at ya like you have 2 heads. Kids need to be kids and I know it’s not as safe to let them out on the streets as much now, It’s not like it used to be. It’s up to us as parents
and adults to get off our arses and get the children outdoors playing and being active, and let them be children getting muddy having fun and stop turning them into PlayStation zombies staring at a screen for hours on end.