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Most Little and Easiest Ways to Exit of Obesity

 

What kind of advertisement can you see most these days? Clothing? Food? Getting the abundance of food since the Industrial Revolution and remarkable changes in human being’s daily society, we are struggling with fat. So, the answer to the question in my point of view is ‘diet’. According to the result of a statistic research released by Korea National Statistics Center in 2008, over 2 trillion won is spent in the ‘diet’ market, by which Korean people want to be helped lose their weight or keep in a good shape. In addition, the obesity in Korea is getting sharply serious at an anxious extent that almost one of six Koreans is obese. Despite such big passion to losing weight, most of those people get several times of failure of and they finally turn skeptical about their goal. Observing them and even having these experiences, I realized that we miss the most basic principles of diet: eat less, move more.

 

As I mentioned above, the first principle for losing weight is to eat less. As I said in the beginning of my writing, we, since there was the great revolution of machinery which allowed us to have big productivity of all food ingredients, we are able to get more foods more easily at a cheaper price than people did in the past. Therefore, we are completely far from the notion of famine-I am talking about the situation in most developed countries today- and we meet not only our desire of eating but abundance of food as well. In a conclusion, it makes people suffering of obesity in our century. This point is well presented by an amount of studies offered since 1960 which is considered the beginning of this big problem, one of the most important ones.

 

Secondly, what is most important in order to lose weight is to move more. To explain phenomena in our actual society related to this problem, I have to mention again the industrial revolution: compared to the amount of food ingestion, people move much less, that is, cannot consume our energy enough to keep a proper weight or shape. That is the most fundamental reason of getting obese. These days, we don’t need to move as much as people did in the past because of a number of machines which replace our basic roles; for example, washing machine, dish washer, cleaner, and so on. In addition, cars, elevators which deprive us of minimum chance to move and consume our surplus energy having been gotten by eating not only high-energy foods but also a large amount of foods. This lack of physical movement causes such big concern, obesity.

 

These two facts are the ones we easily miss because they are very basic and at the same time little to recognize in our daily life. Just keep in mind these two and you’ll be able to see yourself in a good or at least proper shape through mirror. Sometimes, we need to be far from taking advantages or comfort offered by our modern society, especially for escaping from obesity