Did anybody else see half ton mom, wednesday evening C4?!
Question: So shocked she died after just 2 weeks! Personally though I think that there should be more people who are educated on the topic of healthy eating, diet, exercise etc getting to these people ie obese, slighty over weight before they reach that weight size etc so that they wont need to have these operations and put their lives at risk and cost the NHS etc! nowdays there are too many people around the world that are obese and the problem needs to be tackeld head on! For one of my spanish essays i'm writing about obesity in young infants in Spain and am shocked to find that a country that used to pride it's self on a healthy med diet has been converted into a mini America! (not offending America, just stating afact that obesity started there and has gradually reached places like spain and even great britian and it's a world wide epidemic) what are your thoughts etc.
Answers: So shocked she died after just 2 weeks! Personally though I think that there should be more people who are educated on the topic of healthy eating, diet, exercise etc getting to these people ie obese, slighty over weight before they reach that weight size etc so that they wont need to have these operations and put their lives at risk and cost the NHS etc! nowdays there are too many people around the world that are obese and the problem needs to be tackeld head on! For one of my spanish essays i'm writing about obesity in young infants in Spain and am shocked to find that a country that used to pride it's self on a healthy med diet has been converted into a mini America! (not offending America, just stating afact that obesity started there and has gradually reached places like spain and even great britian and it's a world wide epidemic) what are your thoughts etc.
I dont think that fast food causes obesity, you can get obese on lettuce if you eat enough of it. The real problem is that people are not educated enough on how weight gain happens and alot of people dont have the motivation to lose weight.
Most people today are under the impression that 'fatty foods make you fat', but its not necessarily fat that causes weight gain, its carbohydrates. People are consuming too much energy, more than their daily needs and excess energy is what causes weight gain most of the time.
Fast food is higher in calories, so you are more likely to gain weight and become obese if you live on Mcdonalds rather than salad but it all depends on what type of metabolism you have. I eat at Mcdonalds and Burger king etc... quite alot and I wouldnt consider my diet to be perfect, but I do balance it out and have the 'all things in moderation' attitude, and I am tall and slim. Some other people wouldnt get away with eating what I eat so people need to know how much food THEY should be consuming everyday.
Banning fast food adverts on TV wont make any real difference in my opinion, and people have the right to choose where and what they want to eat.
i was shocked that she died as well. It was really interesting to watch but i just dont understand how they can let a person get that big before they do anything about it!!
If they had operated before when she wasn't as big she probably would have survived. It was because her heart just couldnt cope. I feel very sorry for her daughters, it must be hardfor them.
Obesity is getting out of control especially for people who are doing it to themselves
Yes I agree. Who was feeding her towards the end?! Could the people that brought her food not say I'm not bringing you any more food because you'll kill yourself!?
Obesity is a result of the very fact that there is tasty food on tap (which in some cases even has addictive additives on it!) and a sedentary lifestyle. I do believe that there may be some genetic predisposition in it too.
People moan about the fact that it's a nanny state we live in. In my eyes it damn well needs to be a nanny state if people can't even control what they stuff in their own mouths!
How about a reality TV show where five lardy 500lb-ers from Texas swap places with five malnourished Africans for a month?
Alternatively, if more of these people could be persuaded to leave their bodies to Japan, maybe the Japs would be willing to give up whaling?
Frankly, I am sick of my taxes being spent on helping these people who have put themselves in this position, whilst genuinely sick people, such as breast-cancer sufferers, are refused the drugs they need on grounds of cost.
It was soooo sad, but I simply cannot understand how family and friends cannot 'step in' long before a person can reach that size. I don't think in every case it is overeating - think it must be in the genes of some to be 'big' and if say, mum is very overweight, then offspring need to be very careful about what they eat and also exercise. Congratulations to all who have succeeded in losing lots of weight and are now feeling good about themselves
Yes I saw it and was shocked that she died.
Hard to understand how a person can get that huge.
It was sad to hear what happened to her...but I don't understand how she could have becaame like that. The amount of money that she must have spent on food must have been outragious! xxx
Me too. I felt really sad for her lovely daughters. Unfortunately, obesity has hit hard and is on the increase. We all as adults, parents have to be educated so we can educate our children. Schools need to cover healthy eating more widely too. The government are trying to get it across to everyone how important it is to eat healthy and exercise. But quite honestly at the end of the day it is entirely up to the individual what they decide to put in their mouths and how much exercise they do. 40 years ago, all the fast food restaurants did not exist. Junk food was not available.. But now it is, and while there is all this unhealthy food available, I think everywhere there will be this obesity problem. It is very sad.
All we can do is hope that in years to come this problem will start to fade.