If you’re overweight or obese, you are certainly not alone – especially here in the United States. Unfortunately, obesity and even just being overweight is incredibly common, with nearly 80 million people classified as such by the time that we had reached the year of 2010. In that same year, it was found that up to 12.5 million children all throughout the United States were also obese or overweight. And within the next ten year or so, up to half of the adult population is likely to be classified as such. For many people, this is a problem that we must take steps to fight back against as soon as we possibly can.
There are many reasons that obesity has become so prevalent in our society. For instance, a lack of proper nutrition can be linked directly to the growth and spread of the fast food industry both in this country and beyond it as well. After all, the total number of fast food restaurants found within the United States is now double that of the number seen back in the 1970s. And while the food that is offered at so many of these restaurants is tasty, convenient, and easy to afford, it is hugely bad for you as well. In addition to being quite nutritionally lacking, it is also filled with things like high levels of sodium, high levels of sugar, and other such things that are hugely detrimental to overall health in people of all ages – things that can all too quickly contribute to obesity.
A lack of physical activity is also something that far too many people are experiencing over the course of their day to day lives. With the rise of technology, getting up and moving as much as one should is hugely important indeed. Unfortunately, the problem begins early on, as the average child living in today’s modern world is actually spending as many as seven and a half total hours in the use of screens alone. This means, even more sadly, that up to two thirds of all children are not even getting the recommended hour of exercise over the course of the day. This can lead to health problems, often many of which are directly tied to obesity, later in life.
After all, people who do not participate in enough physical activity during their early years are much less likely to partake in enough physical activity later down the line as well. The data that has been gathered on the subject more than backs up this claim, showing that up to 95% of the adult population here in the United States is not getting even just a mere half of an hour of exercise over the course of a single day. In addition to this, less than half of all adults throughout the country are getting essential amount of exercise recommended for the typical week. All of the above can all too easily lead not just to the typical less than healthy lifestyle, but to skyrocketing obesity rates as well. And if nothing it done to change the way in which we are leading our lives, these obesity rates are only likely to keep climbing ever higher and higher, to say the very least.
Fortunately, there are many ways in which more exercise can be added in to the typical day. For instance, getting your own fitness equipment is just one such way. Home fitness equipment can be obtained from a number of places. For instance, a home fitness store in your neighborhood is likely to be the ideal place for home fitness equipment to be obtained. In addition to this, home fitness equipment can be purchased from the typical sports store in the area as well. On top of all this, some people even find that used home fitness equipment can often be found for a relatively good deal. At the end of the day, the uses for home fitness equipment are quite vast indeed, making them a worthwhile purchase for a great many people of all ages and backgrounds throughout the United States – to say the very least.
