Diet and Health Articels

According to a latest study, obesity problem in US is getting worse as more and more Americans are getting obese. There is no single state in US, which is showing some, or little improvement in solving this epidemic like growing problem of obesity. Percentage of obese people is increasing quite speedily and people who are doing exercising are also getting lesser.

Americans are fatter than ever, with obesity rates up in most states and fewer people exercising, according to a study released on Monday. Center and state Government, schools and individuals will have to make combined efforts to solve this ever growing problem of obesity.

Rate of obesity among adult goes beyond 25 percent in 19 states in US. The group advocates that we all need to make collective efforts to fight the obesity problem in US where 60 percent of adults are either obese or overweight.

This would include changes in laws, including mandates on school lunches, requiring insurers to pay for weight loss programs and restoring physical education programs to schools (From Yahoo News).

According to a survey that was conducted recently that includes 400 nurses, found that it is really hard for the obese people to lose weight or they are too much sluggish about losing weight.

50 percent of the nurses think that fat people are too much lazy about losing weight. 45 percent of the nurses believe that the obese people lack the motivation and the ways required to lose weight.

About 54 percent of nurses feel sympathetic about obese people while 4 percent feel it all disgusted. Some of the nurses found it great to help the obese people while 59 percent of nurses felt it is enough to advice obese people about the weight loss way outs.

20 percent of nurses felt it is useless when it comes to helping obese people losing weight. While 19 percent found it embarrassing (From The Sun Online).