ANGLAIS : « excess and culture of obesity »

ANGLAIS : « excess and culture of obesity »

Plan

1) Obesity has no borders

There is no countriewithout fat people (in France 10% of women and 11% of men are fat).

Between 2005 and 2015, thenumber of fat people hadincreasedfrom 400 millions to1,6 billion.

2) Statistics about obesity in America

In America, fat people : 35% of women (35% of body fat) and 25% of men (25% of body fat).

Overweight people : for womenbetween 25 and 31% and for men between 18-24%.

3) Obesity as a norm

American womenacceptbeingoverweight as the norm.

4) Extremeating habits

There are 2 kind of eating habits, one sideeatonlyorganic an vegan and the othersideeatfastfood or preparedfood. There is no middle.

5) Diet fatigue reactions

Americans do a lot of diet and end up answeringwith fatigue, theycannot continue theirdiet.

6) 21stcentury

In 10 years, the number of yoghurt’s brand in France wentfrom 100 to1000. The 21st centurydon’tgive us enough time to sleep or to exercise and producetoomany stress.

7) Regims changes instead of diets

Americansneed to change theirfoodregims. Theydon’tneed lots of dietsbecausethey are useless. they must change theirfood habits, eat as various as possible and eatqualityfood.

They must eat a lot of soup, fruit,vegetable and drink more water. Theyalsoneed to buyfresh and local food of eachseason.

Questions

1) Whydoes the USA have recorded the highestpercentage of obesity cases ? 2) Whatare the consequences of the 21st century’s life style ?

3) Whyregims are betterthandiets ?

4) What are the extremeeating habits thatyoucanencounter in USA ? 5) How doeswomenfeels about beingoverweight ?