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Is Technology Fueling Obesity ?

By Mark on Aug 15, 2008 in Featured

obese In a recent news report it has been said that Britons, are spending less on the price they pay for using communications, but spending more time using them, according to what the statistics say, the average consumer would spend in 2007 approximately seven hours and 30 minutes per day watching television, nine minutes browsing the Internet and or using any other means of communication

Since the year 2002 mobile phone usage has rocketed, and personal computers and laptop usage has gone up four times compared to what it was. If we fast forward to where we are now we now spend approximately three hours and 40 minutes per day watching television, and browsing the Internet has risen to 24 minutes per day, and mobile usage 10 minutes per day.

If we actually look at the statistics, we can clearly see that technology these days is a big part of our lives, there was even a more said within this particular news reference, which says that a lot of people these days will sit with their laptop and watch their TV at the same time.

A most people these days don’t even sit at a table to eat their dinner hence the reason a lot of food you can buy in packets such as ready meals coined the phrase TV dinners.

Because you can quite simply put them in the microwave heat them up and within 10 minutes your meal is ready, so you can sit and eat it in front of your television, and when you have finished eating it.

You can use your laptop computer and then sit there browsing the Internet or whatever else is you do, and once seated sometimes it can be very hard to want to move or do very little else, so as is normally the case exercise tends to get a back seat a bit.

If we go back in history a bit just digressing a bit here, some American researchers in Harvard, decided to look into why America is becoming one of the fastest rising countries were will obesity is abundant, their theory tends to revolve around the division of labour in the 1960s a average non working, American woman spent on average at least two hours per day on cooking family meals.

It would seem that figure has now been cut in half, and in relation to that manufacturers have made food more cheaper convenient, and variable as well.

Let’s take a particular instance the humble potato whereas in years gone by you would actually peel the potatoes, wash the potatoes and then boil the potatoes, and he may also mash them as well when I was younger this was the way we used to eat our food mostly. I don’t seem to remember oven chips or french fries being around at that particular time.

Nowadays we eat potatoes as french fries we don’t even bother to cook them them ourselves, because of the modern advances in food production prices have literally dropped through the floor, and due to the fact that we have all these conveniences around us we tend to eat more snacks which tends to lead to frequent grazing.

And these do tend to be quite hefty snacks, and we eat these rather than regular meals, when you actually see a lot of people on television who are trying to lose weight, you tend to notice these convenience foods are everywhere, and it’s also very tempting to eat take-aways, because people always say that they are strapped for time and don’t particularly want to cook a meal when they have come from home from work.

The reality of this is though that doesn’t always take that long to prepare fresh nutritious food which is a lot far better for you than buying lots of snack type foods all in all everything these days is about convenience, I think I have lost count of the amount of times that my blog gets to searchedor the term lose weight quickly or lose weight fast.

I’m afraid we need to take stock of what we are or aren’t doing because ultimately that is where the answer lies to our ever-growing nations of overweight people and I would say myself that technology plays a large part in this things have just become far too convenient for us.

The whole problem with all of this situation is technology a lot of times can soak up so much time, that we don’t even think that we should be doing other things, they seem to take a back seat. After all which is more enjoyable 30 minutes of exercise,or sitting in front of the TV with your laptop, and talking on your mobile phone at the same time, whilst eating your food the mind boggles doesn’t it.

I don’t think they would have been too many obese cavemen do you.