Why are so many people overweight?

It’s vital to understand why so many boys are overweight and why this is increasing in our nation. There are of course lots of factors and some are more relevant than others . The many factors include the following:

We eat too much
A very obvious reason why boys are overweight is that they eat too much. There are many causes as to why people eat too much, which really need to be looked at and understood.

We eat the wrong food types
Another big reason why boys are overweight is because of the type of foods they eat. In a similar way to the general notion that the brain is wired to eat more than it needs to, as explained in the previous section, our brain also craves more of the food types that are best for energy and energy reserve storage.

These food types are more of the carbohydrates that generally contain the most calories and provide the most energy. So on the basis that we need energy and energy reserves to survive, our brain often targets and craves these far more than other food types.

Food types such as breads, cakes, sweets, chocolate, crisps, cereals, etc., are more likely to have that ‘pull’ effect on us as they provide the most calories and energy. However, we very rarely need this energy either in the present or as storage for the future so inevitably if we eat these foods we put on weight. So eating the wrong type of food can have a big effect on our weight as we don’t need to eat these food types, and combined with eating too much it is no real surprise that so many people are overweight nowadays.

If we are using the energy and burning the calories straight away, perhaps from doing an exhausting physical challenge, then those food types can be very beneficial as they provide an instant energy source and will be burnt off and not stored by the body.

So it is wrong to say that these food types are necessarily bad or wrong for us, just that more often than not we do not burn the calories off. Additionally, they only really provide one key benefit, which is energy, and have very little other