To me, it’s obvious why the diabetes level are at epidemic proportions, and that is the first reason listed- “An increasingly sedentary lifestyle and poor eating practices, resulting in overweight and obesity”. If people are not active and moving around with a healthy lifestyle, it doesn’t matter how well or how poorly they eat because they will eventually experience health issues. Hopefully those health issues do not include diabetes, but there has been a lot of research that has linked physical inactivity and diabetes. For example, according to stateofobesity.org, “Ten of the 12 states with the highest type 2 diabetes rates are in the South” (stateofobesity.org) and looking at the rates of physical inactivity, it is also obvious that the South has a problem with physical inactivity as well.
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Instead of being sold by the latest advertisement to try a deal at a fast food restaurant, we should try preparing healthy fresh food ourselves more. Furthermore, instead of being lazy and never getting any physical activity, we as a society can push ourselves to take care of the one vessel we are given at birth to go through life with. It’s really not that hard of a concept to take care of yourself, but we should try and encourage and reinforce good healthy habits that we see others doing in their daily lives, since we are the ones who are awake to the causes and effects of a poor diet and fitness
Instead of being sold by the latest advertisement to try a deal at a fast food restaurant, we should try preparing healthy fresh food ourselves more. Furthermore, instead of being lazy and never getting any physical activity, we as a society can push ourselves to take care of the one vessel we are given at birth to go through life with. It’s really not that hard of a concept to take care of yourself, but we should try and encourage and reinforce good healthy habits that we see others doing in their daily lives, since we are the ones who are awake to the causes and effects of a poor diet and fitness