Obesity, Dishwashers and Gastric Bands

Malaga, Spain, May 06, 2016 - The Origins of Obesity?.. It's interesting that in the early 1960s much was said about famine and it being a serious global problem, people in some parts of the world were dying of starvation, but now in the media, on an almost daily basis, it has changed to discussions about 'globesity'. Obesity rivals global warming and international terrorism in terms of threats to society. The World Health Organisation confirms that obesity and overweight are now linked to more deaths than starvation, the situation has reversed.

Many books and research documents have, of course, been written about the subject: not so many on the effect of basic energy expenditure, obvious you may think.

Let me explain?..When I was a child I remember living with my parents, brother and sister, always eating three meals a day, often having supper as a little extra most evenings before bed time. I fondly remember the large Sunday lunches, always with a heavy pudding, but no one in our home was what I would call fat.

I went to a very large school; hundreds of children attended, but once again thinking back, whilst I am sure there must have been a few overweight kids attending, I cannot think of many. So what changed, how did global obesity become such a big issue?

Well, for a start I remember my mum or dad repeatedly asking me to 'jump up and change the TV channel back and forth'. The telephone was 'wired in', and, like in all households at the time, I remember it being on a small table at the end of the hall, so answering the phone always meant running down the hallway, and then going back to tell whoever the call was for, to 'visit the phone'. I learnt to drive in my dad's Ford car, no power-assisted steering then, and when you wanted to open the window you had to turn a crank handle on the door winding it up or down. After doing my paper round in the morning I would return home, have a wash and make my bed before leaving for school.

I recall my first trip abroad, being dropped off at Luton airport in a minibus, struggling to the terminal carrying my suitcase, and standing in line behind a hundred or more people at the check-in desk. Every time someone was checked in, you bent down, picked up your case and moved forward a step or two.

Before I left home this morning, I made the bed, not like I did when I was a kid, with sheets and blankets all needing to be 'tucked in'; I just picked up the duvet, gave it a shake and lowered it on the bed. We drove to work in our average car; it's just a small Peugeot, but like all cars nowadays it has power-assisted steering, electric windows, air-conditioning and electrically adjusted wing mirrors; absolutely no need to move a muscle or do basically anything other than just sit?..

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