The Scourge of Obesity Among Young People.

Early in the morning last Saturday, I was inside a Shoprite store when I saw a woman jump onto one of the store’s scooters. I thought she was merely sitting on it while waiting for someone. But she soon drove it into an aisle to look at the arrays of items. I then wondered why such a young woman would need a scooter to shop. I however noted that she was grossly obese.

I was also at the Christiana Mall (Delaware) the other week and observed the many young men and women, all in their early twenties, as they practically struggled to walk. In my opinion, these young people are human “time-bombs” who pose serious health dangers to themselves. If anything at all, they risk sudden heart failures on daily basis.



The nagging question on my mind at that point was why there were (and still are) so many fat young people all over the place? The answers, though, could not be far-fetched. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out the sources of the problems and the possible solutions to the issue of obesity among the young folks.

On the one hand are the too many young people who are ignoring the importance of a healthy lifestyle. They eat like gluttons with reckless abandon. And their choices of “favorite” foods are usually the junks. For folks eating and drinking so recklessly, aren’t they supposed to do some daily work-outs? The answer is no! Many of them actually hate any form of physical exercise like the plague.



On the other hand, there are those among them who restrict themselves to some expensive so-called organic foods, bottled water and all kinds of cute, exotic stuff BUT after consuming all those expensive foods and drinks, what do they do?

• They drive cars with automatic transmissions without breaking a sweat.

• They use remote devices to control their televisions in a bid to avoid getting up once-in-awhile.

• They go to stores and, instead of walking along the aisles to do some physical exercise they lazily get on motor scooters to ride around in pleasure.

• At work or when visiting public places, they go everywhere by elevators.

• And back home, they sit opposite televisions for hours, turning themselves into “couch potatoes”.

And so, these young people pile up fats. Their stomachs protrude as if they are six-month pregnant, they pants and grunts while trying to do the most minimal chores and turning their fat bodies into “comfortable homes” for diabetes, heart diseases and numerous other ailments. And, of course, they end up getting sick most of the time until, one day, when their body time-bombs will explode!