Health and weight It’s well-known that weight and health are strongly linked. These features are following opposite trends in some countries: while the average weight of people is increasing, their levels of health and fitness are dropping. The main cause of these trends seems to be the modern urban lifestyle. People don’t have time in their routine to care about their health. The time spent in traffic and in the work journey represents almost half of the day, so there is no time enough to cook or to go to the gym. The alternatives for cooking are not so good. In some countries, fast foods are cheaper than healthy and well cooked food, what makes people choice them instead of a nutritious meal. A way to solve this problem could be increase prices of fast food and make healthy foods cheaper. Sometimes, when I go to the supermarket, I buy cookies and other industrialized supplies because they are cheaper than fruits and other types of nutritious food. If the prices were reduced I would prefer to buy fruits and include them in my daily diet. Of course there are lots of possible measures that could solve this problem, but I believe that all of them regards to helping people add good habits in their routines, like changing the type of food they eat. Caring about the diet affects not only the weight, but also the health and, consequently, the quality of life. We should be more careful about it.