Blame technological progress.
Scientists have found the answer to the question why women in modern world are more prone to be overweight, than half a century ago: the whole thing in less amount of time they devote to homework. For example, in the 60-ies of the last century were women given the household almost 30 hours a week, and now the strength of 12-13, that is a little less than two hours a day.
Progress came to the assistance of the fairer half of humanity: household appliances has made our lives easier and better. You don’t have to carry water in buckets, heat it on the fire, wash by hand and with a dishwasher you can still on the dirty dishes forgotten. The vacuum cleaner has greatly facilitated the maintenance of carpets and floors, getting rid of work by hand.
But the same technological progress has a reverse side of the coin. According to nutritionists, devoting less time to physical work, women were more likely to be overweight, weight they are easier to type than it was in the middle of the 20th century.
Of course, there are plenty of reasons why women gain weight. Take become painfully familiar fast food: whatever it was, this food is created to used it without hesitation, swallowing on the run. Fast food is attractive and what is delicious and therefore acts as a drug: in a short time you get and the satisfaction of hunger and taste — plus all this for little money.
Facilitate women to take care of the farming and semi-finished products: much easier to cook store-bought dumplings, than to cook in your own kitchen masterpiece of culinary art.
Hence, problems with excess weight, because the preparation of dumplings is not labor-intensive process, in addition, they are very substantial, and therefore contain a huge number of calories.
Stress haunt modern man and not always promotes weight loss. Women struggle with them, “seizing”. This absorbs mostly sweet foods that contain a lot of carbs and calories: cakes, biscuits, chocolate, ice cream. Besides, in stressful situations women are often a little move that leads to the recruitment of extra pounds.
The desire for the urban way of life also leads to excess weight. Gone are the households with cows, chickens, pigs, which must be constantly maintained. The cottage became a place where no cultivated crops, spending all summer in the grueling works above the beds. Now it is a place where people come to barbecues. And it also affects weight. Since then, when the cottages were equipped with water supply, gas pipeline, built-in household appliances, life on vacation has become many times easier. Need to work on the farm disappeared by itself.
Sedentary lifestyle, frequent snacks, tea with sweets and cakes, high workload, lack of time for a full lunch, late dinner, a rich high-calorie dishes — all well-known factors contributing to weight gain. All of them remember, but somehow forget, coming into the office: hands themselves and reach for bread, chocolate or biscuits. And there will not save even a fitness. Especially when after him is a hearty dinner that fills lost during the workout calories.
