Why dont people take care of themselves?

Why are most people obsessed with themselves? Why is "(extreme) thin-ness" the only measure of physical fitness to most people today ? Why are most health problems congenital, hereditary or with untraceable triggers ? Why is there no real proof of terminal illness' origins? Why do so many sports professionals and health conscious people get diagnosed with serious ailments? Why do most people squander their money pampering themselves instead of providing better education for their kids ? see? extreme generalisations are foolish, immature and pointless.

*sighs* Its not laziness has anyone thought how DEPRESSING everything can be when your unfit, healthy? its not f****ing rocket since. Not only that you have to look at the cost of food, the cost of going to a gym. So you 10 whom have been bitches to pepole get your FACTS right and don't be so damn judgemental. Work is more important as alot of pepole want to pay bills get out of debut so they don't want to look at the health as an issue and just live day by day.

A lot of people prefer being happy and enjoying themselves right now rather than later. Watching tv and grabbing a slice of pizza is far more fun than running on a treadmill with a carrot.

It's easier to be unhealthy than healthy. Urgency is how many people think with. (e.g fast food vs. cooking for 30 mins.) Lets face it "healthy" takes a lot of maintaining and time.

wow. got any facts to back up your generalizations? I find that the heaviest people, in general, are poor.

I ask myself that too, and all I can come up with is LAZINESS. People want instant gratification, so they quit diets and work outs right away. People get preoccupied with work and other things and let themselves go. It's sad.

too lazy i guess

For one thing, healthy food is far more expensive than fast food or junk food. $0.89 will buy you one piece of corn at the grocery store, or a full meal at McDonald's. I don't think anyone wakes up in the morning and says "It's more important for me to make money than it is to be healthy." For one thing, people who work in or near places that serve overpriced, unhealthy food will buy it just because it's convenient. It's easy to walk over to the nearest vending machine and make your lunch a candy bar and a soda. But like others have said, it's easy to get lost in the stresses of the day, and easier to let food fit into your schedule, rather than to let your schedule revolve around food. I'm currently dieting seriously, and it becomes very hard to constantly plan ahead for every meal, and to have to go to the grocery store 2 or 3 times a week. It's hard to get up early and pack a lunch to take to work with me every day, and it's hard for me to take the time out of work to stop what I'm doing and prepare it. To put it simply, most people are unhealthy because we live in a country where healthy food is inconvenient and expensive, and where our jobs don't allow us to take the time out to go find something healthy.

LAZINESS People don't care to be healthy because, possibly, they don't know how. Plus healthy food is more expensive than the dollar menu at everyone's favorite burger place. Without money, you can't really survive nowadays. You can't buy land, therefore, you can't plant any veggies to eat.