Americans are getting bigger and bigger. Most people are putting down the weights and picking up the potato chips. One in every three people is now considered obese. Not just overweight, obese. When people are overweight it is assumed they would constantly be trying to lose the weight, but that is no longer the case. Something is always holding them back, whether it be an addiction to sweets and fast food, no time to workout, not enough sleep at night or just a general lack of concern. In reality, some people also have simply given up and no longer are concerned with what the scale says and how they feel.

A study done between 1988 and 1994 was repeated from 2009 to 2014 to see if people were still trying to lose weight. The study was published on tuscon.com, and it revealed that those surveyed were “17 percent less likely overall to say they’d tried to lose weight during previous years.” Similarly tuscon.com quoted Dr. Jian Zhang saying that “people who were overweight but not yet obese have experiences the greatest loss of interest in maintaining a healthy weight.” People are no longer feeling the pressure to shed those extra pounds.

People no longer feel  a need to be considered healthy by nationals is a big problem, considering that 70.9 percent of men and 61.9 percent of women are overweight or obese in America, compared to 38 percent of men and 36.9 percent of women worldwide according to everydayhealth.com. America is continually getting larger and larger than every other country and not in the good way.

Modern medicine has advanced leaps and bounds, so people now can live longer being obese. They do not see a need to lose weight if they will live just as long as everyone else. There is not a need to be thin anymore because life is still easy being overweight. At this point, the decision lies within those who feel they are overweight and what they expect of themselves.