Obesity in Globalization Era

Obesity In Globalization Era

People who live in this globalization era are different with our grandparents’ generation in viewing health. Our grandparents’ generation viewed health from someone’s body shape. They believed that a person who  had a big body was a healthy person. However, they believed a person who did not have a big body had serious illness. Unlike our grandparents’ generation, people in the globalization erabelieve that someone who has a big body is having serious problem called obesity. There are three main things cause obesity in globalization era: over eating, fast food, and lack of exercise.

The first thing causes people obese is over eating. Over eating is common nowadays because many people are easy to get stress.They are easy to get stress because they are living in globalization era where they have to face tight competitions. The common stress that they face is like: running of time of deadline, the increasing of primer needs price, or even family problem. People who are stress will tend to eat in big portions than they used to in normal condition. It is because stress gives stimulus to eat more, so people who are stressful will feel better when they eat much. Why? It is becausewhen they are eating they can find something that pleasures them. The other thing is they find eating as the escape from the stress itself.However, that makes them addict to it. They think that eating is the only way they feel happiness, so they will eat more and more. They only will stop if they are not stressful anymore. That activity of eating happens continuously until they realize that they get obese, and they can't stop their eating habit.

The second thing causes obesity is the existence of fast food.  Realize it or not, living in globalization era is about being fast and practice, and that affects the people's choices on food. As we know that there are so many fast food restaurants exist nowadays. And people prefer to order their favorite food on fast food restaurant rather than they cook it themselves at home. They think that fast food is easy and fast to get and practice. First, they believe that fast food is easy and fast because they do not have to spend hours to cook in their kitchen instead they only need five to ten minutes to get fast food. Second, they think that fast food is practice because they could bring it and eat it while they are in hurry to catch work or class.  However, the facts say that fast food contains higher calorie and higher fat compare to home-cooked food. That means the more often people eat fast food the more higher risk they will be obese.

The last thing causes obesity is lack of exercises. It is clear that living in globalization is full of competition. So, people who want to survive have to work hard, or they lose their job. And Those people who compete in the globalization era may be busy with what they are working. They are busy on how to complete and finish their job, but they forget to exercise. For example: Everyone who works in the office do not move much. They only sit and do their job desk since the work makes them to. And the saddest thing is they do not have time to exercise because they are always tired of long day working at the office. So, when they get home they will just eat and sleep, and they do not do exercise. And that happens continuously and makes them obese.

In short, there are three things that cause obesity in the globalization era: over eating, fast food, and lack of exercises. so,  I think people should be wiser to manage their lives in order to avoid themselves from getting obese.

Meilawati

Mahasiswi Penerima beasiswa PBU (Program Beasiswa Unggulan)

S1  Sastra Inggris - STBA LIA Jakarta