Oh, poor fat belly girl, she doesn't know what to do.
She's got a tire around her middle and she cannot see her shoe.
She's tried exercise, diet, weight products galore.
Now she has no money and cannot see the floor.
Fat belly girl is completely fictitious, but her story is one that many people can identify with.
Many people find themselves in a position where they need to lose weight and they bounce from product to product and plan to plan, and spend a small fortune in the process yet never experience sustaining results.
What is more, the diet industry is relatively unregulated.
Many of the products that claim to help lose weight have never undergone rigorous testing and some are even unsafe and pose long-term health risks.
Fat belly girl is in a difficult position, stores are packed with aisles upon aisles of diet products and the weight loss industry is rife on the internet.
Many people, including fat belly girl, have something in common however as their desire to lose weight is indicative of another trend in America, and that is the trend towards obesity.
According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), obesity in adults has increased by 60% within the past twenty years and obesity in children has tripled in the past thirty years.
A staggering 33% of American adults are obese and obesity-related deaths have climbed to more than 300,000 a year, second only to tobacco-related deaths.
While the obesity rates amongst adults are shocking, what is even more shocking are the obesity rates amongst children.
This shows quite clearly that obesity begins in childhood and in order to deal with the problem, we, just like fat belly girl, will have to change our lifestyle and eating habits to see significant improvements.
Unless we somehow intervene early, our contemporary lifestyles of microwaved and pre-packaged and processed foods will only exacerbate the problem as will our reliance on contemporary transportation that deprives us of simple forms of exercise like walking and bicycling.
In addition, it is reported that the average child sees more than 10,000 food ads on TV each year, most for high-calorie, high-fat, and high-sugar meals.
The fast food industry spends billions per year on marketing, and they have also infiltrated schools, signing contracts with them.
Children are bombarded from every angle with these toxic foods making it virtually impossible for them to eat anything else.
It is no wonder that we have an increasingly obese population of children (who in time will become an obese population of adults).
Poor fat belly girl started building her spare tire early on in life.
She's got a tire around her middle and she cannot see her shoe.
She's tried exercise, diet, weight products galore.
Now she has no money and cannot see the floor.
Fat belly girl is completely fictitious, but her story is one that many people can identify with.
Many people find themselves in a position where they need to lose weight and they bounce from product to product and plan to plan, and spend a small fortune in the process yet never experience sustaining results.
What is more, the diet industry is relatively unregulated.
Many of the products that claim to help lose weight have never undergone rigorous testing and some are even unsafe and pose long-term health risks.
Fat belly girl is in a difficult position, stores are packed with aisles upon aisles of diet products and the weight loss industry is rife on the internet.
Many people, including fat belly girl, have something in common however as their desire to lose weight is indicative of another trend in America, and that is the trend towards obesity.
According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), obesity in adults has increased by 60% within the past twenty years and obesity in children has tripled in the past thirty years.
A staggering 33% of American adults are obese and obesity-related deaths have climbed to more than 300,000 a year, second only to tobacco-related deaths.
While the obesity rates amongst adults are shocking, what is even more shocking are the obesity rates amongst children.
This shows quite clearly that obesity begins in childhood and in order to deal with the problem, we, just like fat belly girl, will have to change our lifestyle and eating habits to see significant improvements.
Unless we somehow intervene early, our contemporary lifestyles of microwaved and pre-packaged and processed foods will only exacerbate the problem as will our reliance on contemporary transportation that deprives us of simple forms of exercise like walking and bicycling.
In addition, it is reported that the average child sees more than 10,000 food ads on TV each year, most for high-calorie, high-fat, and high-sugar meals.
The fast food industry spends billions per year on marketing, and they have also infiltrated schools, signing contracts with them.
Children are bombarded from every angle with these toxic foods making it virtually impossible for them to eat anything else.
It is no wonder that we have an increasingly obese population of children (who in time will become an obese population of adults).
Poor fat belly girl started building her spare tire early on in life.
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