Why Americans are getting fat?

             According to Kelly Brownell, one of the nation's leading obesity experts, one out of two adults and one out of four children are overweight. It's almost abnormal to be normal weight in this society. A survey in 1999 and 2000 shows that more than 30 percent of people in the United States are overweight according to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That is an 8 percent increase over data collected from 1988 through 1994. Although these data really appear dramatic, obesity will increase rapidly if American people just keep up with the way they are now. Why has it become so hard for us to stay at normal weight? And why now is this trend of obesity so rapidly increasing? Many people have asked those questions for years, and the answer is that what we eat and our life style has lead more and more of us to fat. One of the reasons that lead us to obesity is that we are living in a society with a lot cultural changes which made us eat more food that make us easily to get fat. Another reason is that are consuming a lot more calories before. Plus we are less active than we were before.
             The first cause of obesity is that American people are we are living in a society with a lot cultural changes and environment which encourage us eat more food that make us easily to get fat. We are facing with cultural changes such as no time to cook, eat on the run, etc...Most of America people are prefer eating out than cooking at home. We constantly see people eating when they are driving, reading or even doing their works. Americans just love to eat food when they are working. It is so much fun eating and Americans like to have fun. Plus, Americans live in an environment that encourages them to eat more fast food. We live in an environment which food is always ready to eat. There is a variety of food in America and Americans can have fun choosing what to eat. For example you
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