The Diet Of A Vegetarian Diet

What causes are leading to obesity? In America, there are many overweight and obese Americans. A handful of factors can lead to obesity, but the major factors are some things Americans don’t see or want to give up. Like food, no one wants to give up tasty food, even knowing it is bad for you. With technology life is so much easier and no one wants to give that up and have their life be more stressful and frustrating. Fast food, technology, and advertisements are characteristics of why obesity is growing.

In the United States, more people are becoming obese because of their dietary choices. Two out of three people in the united states are considered overweight or obese. Obesity and diet caused diseases are the leading cause of death and it is preventable. Diet caused diseases could be stopped if people were educated about nutrition.

Healthy lifestyles have come to dominate the minds of many people in the contemporary society, a fact that has brought to life many exciting trends in all aspects of social functioning. As food is directly related to our health, it is no wonder that people have begun to pay increased attention to the food they eat. In particular, this interest has sparked renewal of vegetarianism, which is an easy way to attain a healthy lifestyle through abandoning animal foods.

Healthy eating habits can have remarkable effects on your health. Obesity, according to Medical News Today, obesity is ‘‘...a condition where a person has accumulated so much body fat that it might have a negative effect on their health.’’ This is caused by a person consuming food with empty calories, too much sodium, fats, sugars, etc. However, obesity is not the only

Note: For the purpose of this essay, vegetarians are people who do not eat meat, fish or egg. They consume milk products, plants and plant products.

Eat a burger value meal everyday while sitting on your comfortable couch, and you will soon learn what the obesity hype is all about. Fast food stores are advertising more food for less money with quicker service. The media tends to misrepresent images of their target customer in television and magazine advertisements. Laziness is probably one of the main causes of obesity in our country. When you mix poor diet with poor exercising habits the outcome is far from being healthy. Obesity in the United States is at an all time high due to increasing fast food popularity, media influence, and the lack of exercise.

Obesity has always been a topic that many have had due to the increase attention it has received. Across America, there has been a lot of attention on the obesity epidemic. In America and the inner cities, more people are eating meals away from home in addition to consuming larger portions from fast food restaurants. At this rate, gaining weight is the likely outcome. High energy dense food has become convenient and affordable. Fast food is almost everywhere in America and, contributes to the growing obesity epidemic. Access to healthy foods are either expensive or have a limited access to it. For example, soda is everywhere for low costs, but coconut water is expensive or not found easily depending on the demand for it. Our environment

“Our environment doesn’t support healthy lifestyle habits; in fact, it encourages obesity. Some reasons include: Lack of neighborhood sidewalks and safe places for recreation; work schedules; oversized food portions; lack of access to healthy foods; and food advertising.” (What casues over weight and obestiy, 2012)

Many American households eat unhealthy diets consisting of many saturated fats, high in sugar, high in salt, and high in unburned calories. This type of diet especially becomes a problem when it is a person's sole source of nutrition, and they don't eat properly to balance their diets. If Americans continue eating this way, and continue to increase obesity nationwide, this can turn to an increase in health problems which may lead to death. This is the case with most of

Another reason behind the obesity is also the eating habits. Bad eating habit cause people to be obese. Eating too much of junk food that includes high-calorie meals full of sugar and fat, like French fries, soda and other sweet drinks makes people fat (Grady). Specially having such food and not performing any

The occurrence of obesity has increased tremendously in the United States and is now considered an epidemic. It is a dangerous epidemic, because it increases risks for heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, breathing problems, and more. It also increases the chance of developing diabetes, which comes with its own list of scary health problems. Obesity is caused by two simple factors, simply consuming too much food, and not getting enough physical activity. Although the causes for obesity may seem simple, it is not quite as easy as it would seem to avoid becoming a part of this epidemic. Eating too much is easy to do. This is especially true in a society where a single serving meal should serve more people based on its nutritional contents, healthy options are often more time consuming and expensive than the unhealthy, yet quick and easy food items, and the option to super-size your meal for a surprisingly cheap price is available at any fast food restaurant, of which, there are an abundance to choose and on every corner.

All the fast foods are constantly competing with giving the cheapest and unhealthiest food to the consumers that are willing to ruin their health for lower prices. One may argue that there are healthier options on the menu. Healthier options cost more money therefore people on budget or lower income families can afford only unhealthy options. Up until now people have been focusing on how obesity is within the poor or the rich or between races. For the longest time obesity or overweight was a good thing because the fatter you are, the richer you are. Never have they thought that the main cause is the lower prices. Some researchers have suggested that part of the problem is not enough healthy food being available. But some data has shown that there are fruits and vegetables that have became affordable and accessible to the consumer. Americans are always busy and always in need of on-the-go foods. Buying fruits and vegetable will only consume time. Cheap foods have to be processed making them unhealthier.

A problem that continues to exacerbate each year is the rising amount of overweight and obese Americans. This does not come to a surprise considering American’s love for fast food and a living in a society which promotes physical inactivity. According to an article written by Jan Simmonds, “If you are more than a few pounds above your ideal weight, you are overweight. But if you are more than twenty percent above your ideal weight, you are obese.” This means that a person’s weight endangers their health which leads to other complications. The causes of obesity range from genetics, to combinations of hormonal, metabolic, behavioral factors, and changes in society.

My health has been better after starting my vegetarian diet; this has immensely helped after the many ailments that loom my family. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at an early age due to my stress levels and bad eating habits. It's funny because I've been the thin one in my family, never been overweight but my unhealthy diets and exercise regimens have caused me some health issues. I had to learn the hard way but the good thing is that I learned.

Two major factors contributing to high obesity rates are poor nutrition and lack of physical activity. “Contributing to these two causes are a myriad of factors including genetics, the built environment in which increasing numbers of Americans are living, lack of access to nutritious food choices, more eating out behavior