Why are We Getting Obesity Now than Old Days?

Graph -1 - Obesity among younger increase over time

The facts that American kids, teenagers and adults are getting obese and obesity generally. These data are recorded for more than 50 years.

Data for kids and teenagers were taken several times from period of 1963 to 2014 (please see Graph -1).

In case of adults, both women and men tend to obese. But, women more obese than men since 1960. The data continue to periods of 2013 to 2014 as shown on Graph -2 at below.

Surprisingly that the following facts are not changes or almost the same for 50 years:

- Eating the same amount of food

- Consume the same quantities of calories, fat and protein

- Doing the same amount of physical exercises.

The question then why are We getting obese now Days?

Graph -2 – Increasing of obesity between men and women

Some experts suggested the following possible reasons (needed to be studied furthermore:

- Life style such as infant with less or without breast-fed are obese more than infants with breast-fed more than 3 months

- Increasing of drug using especially prescription drugs which in fact relate to obesity.

- Changing of our microorganisms in our intestines. It is believed the current type of gut microorganisms are relate to weight gain.

- We probably expose to more chemical environments such as food processing and pesticides. These lead to hormonal work to cause obesity.

Should we back to old days? What do you think?