Who Is To Blame For Obesity In America?

It's easy to discuss who is to blame for obesity but it is harder to no blame an individual. We are quick to look down upon those who are overweight and think they are weak and lazy. In reality we all have our own vices and reasons behind them. People who suffer from obesity are no different.

Depression: If you are not feeling well mentally you can over eat. You don't want to feel good about yourself and you will feed the need to feel better by eating. It gives you a sense of goodness for the period you are eating it because it tastes good.

Control: When everything else is a person's life is out of control then perhaps the one thing they can control is eating. Even if it is too much they are in control and want to have control over something. It can cause obesity. It can also cause other eating disorders as bulimia.

Learned behavior: Coming from a family that does not eat healthy and there is nothing wrong with that is a learned behavior. There is not issue of eating the wrong foods, the wrong portions and the wrong time of day is standard. No one is to blame as it is generational and no one sees that perhaps it is causing the obesity because they are a happy family.

Protection: If a person has unfortunately been sexually abused they may struggle with weight as one of their coping mechanisms. If they can control their weight by how they look unappealing in their eye to others then they feel protected from being hurt in the future.

You can blame obesity on laziness or someone's lack of willpower. But we can blame anything on anyone or anything if we choose to and it is easy to do. What is more difficult is to find compassion for an issue and appreciate that someone is struggling at something as much as you may be struggling at something else. None of us are perfect and we need to see other's pain to help them heal from it.

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