Obesity in Costa Rica

Obesity in Costa Rica

Nowadays, Obesity is more than a simple problem in Costa Rica and the whole world. People are increasing their weight even they do not notice it. In Costa Rica´s culture obesity is pretty common, you can see it from kids to adults. Sometimes people do not care about themself and neither about their health.

There are lots of causes for obesity, for example: people can eat everything they want to. Fast food is in every corner moreover is pretty cheap, you do not need to have a lot of money for buying something to eat. For example we have Tacobell, McDonalds, Burger King, in every place, wherever you go you will have fast food. This is the principal cause of obesity, obviosly this is not the unique cause.

People are living a rush liffe, the routine is the owner of their lifes. People have to work, eight hours per day, in some cases more than eight, then if they studyed, they have to go there. Besides that they have to get time for family, social life and those things, but in some cases people do not take care about the food they eat, and also they do not have enough time for doing excersice. So, as a consequence they begin gaining weight.

 

When people realiza that they have bad eat habits, is when they have an illness such as hihg blood pressure, diabets, aletargic, among others. There is a point of teir life, where they take responsability of their actions and people strat to worry about their health.

 

So,being obese is our decision, we have to organize our life, and try to have a balance in general, sometimes is really difficult but we must try it, we have to remember that our health is first of everything.

And remember the saying:

“It´s better to prevent than to feel sorry”.