Sedentary lifestyle major reason for obesity and diabetes
Have a look at these numbers
- Fast food spending in America has increased from $6 billion to $110 billion over the last 30 years.
- In 1995, Americans spent 40% of their food expenditure in restaurants, a significant increase since 1975 when the figure was 25%
- In 1970, the number of fast food restaurants in the U.S was 30,000 which exploded to 222,000 in 2001
These are some shocking numbers that provide further proof to the well known and worrying fact that sedentary lifestyle and wrong eating habits have resulted in problems like obesity reaching epidemic proportions. Obesity leads to other diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular problems. Over the years, Americans have started eating more and more high calorie, high sugar foods. Added to this is very little or no physical exercise, which complicates the situation even further.
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