One in five obese adults are more motivated to loosing weight and go on a diet while the other half are okay with remaining overweight, a recent study finds.
Nuffield Health surveyed 550 obese people and asked them about their attitudes towards exercise and weight loss. A quarter said they do not have the time to exercise and 40 percent responded by saying that exercise is boring. One in seven participants also said they would rather risk their health by being overweight than have to engage in any form of exercise. Former employment secretary Lord Tebbit said: "People ought to know that if they stuff themselves silly with high-calorie rubbish foods, they will get fat."
"It's their responsibility and all the forums and other nonsenses are merely trying to divorce people from the consequences of their own stupid action," he added. Researchers involved in the study polled 3,100 adults in Britain who were of varying weights. They found out that 39 percent of people claim that they do not eat healthily because it is too expensive to do so. 14 percent of people think they lack time to prepare healthy food and ten percent say they do not know how to eat healthily.
Dr. Davina Deniszczyc, GP and Medical Director of Wellbeing at Nuffield Health said: "If you are struggling financially, a cut-price fast food offer might seem like the best value option, but it is disappointing to see so many people are falling for this myth. There is clearly a huge amount of work to be done to persuade people that the cheapest food can actually be the healthiest food. That people would rather be overweight than eat healthy also needs to be addressed, because the repercussions of children and young adults growing up within this mindset will be a tragedy."
