Why more educated we are , more obese we become?

I don't think there is a magical one size fits all answer to this.

I think the most important thing is to never give up until you find what works for you. Many people get disheartened, but something will eventually kick in, it is just a matter of having patience and taking the baby steps, knowing that slow progress, even if it stops and starts is still going in the right direction.

for me
i eat processed foods
i count calories
i exercise (strength training is very helpful to me) as I've read having more muscle will make you burn more calories in a sedentary state

but i do believe that processed foods are not good at all but its just so damn convenient.

Although I see no correlation to your topic title and your actual post, I would offer that the more educated one gets, the less likely one is rely on manual/physical labor as a means of supporting oneself financially.

Less activity would tend to encourage obesity, not more education.

I grew up in Europe . I ate white bread, a lot of pasta , a lot of sandwiches with cold cuts but also a lot of vegetables and fruits from our own garden and I was skinny. There was maybe 5 % obese people.
Now a lot of food is processed , they add a lot of chemicals and preservatives that's why we can not lose weight . Why few years back I was able to be skinny while eating bagels with cream cheese , pizza, sandwitches. Maybe because I ate when I was hungry only? Most of the time 3 times a day only. Now I know a lot about food and what and often we should eat. But it doesn't seem working.
I don't think age makes such a big difference. My mom is 65 and she looks great. She eats like I used to eat when I was 20-30.
So what is so important? To count calories, eat unprocessed food or eat 5 times a day? Or something else?

Well....you say in your profile that you binge eat. Perhaps that has had an effect on your weight gain?

Although I see no correlation to your topic title and your actual post, I would offer that the more educated one gets, the less likely one is rely on manual/physical labor as a means of supporting oneself financially.

Less activity would tend to encourage obesity, not more education.

this.

i dont have to work hard for my food. i essentially earn my food by sitting on my butt 40 hours a week and working on a computer. and then when it comes to actual food i can either go to the grocery store where it's been hunted and gathered for me or i can be really lazy and order it already cooked.

really the only real "work" i do around my food is putting it on a dish and feeding myself.

Now a lot of food is processed , they add a lot of chemicals and preservatives that's why we can not lose weight .

No.

I agree. Chemicals and preservatives don't cause weight gain. But if you eat a lot of packaged foods, you probably eat a lot of calorie dense foods, just because that tends to be what gets packaged. Even if you made your Doritos and PopTarts from scratch, they'd still be high calorie, low satiety foods.

There is no correlation between education and obesity that I've ever heard, except for maybe reverse correlation.

I think obesity in America is actually on the decline, isn't it? At least among kids and teens.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/health/obesity-rate-for-young-children-plummets-43-in-a-decade.html?_r=0
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/266166.php

Europeans traditionally stay slimmer than Americans because there is greater portion control there and much more day to day physical activity.

Many Europeans eat very well, but notice next time that the idea of a typical French or Italian portion size is almost nothing like one here from the States.

Europeans traditionally stay slimmer than Americans because there is greater portion control there and much more day to day physical activity.

Many Europeans eat very well, but notice next time that the idea of a typical French or Italian portion size is almost nothing like one here from the States.

No free refills in the place I visited either

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I feel the same as the OP and grew up te same way-only, that I often went hungry to bed. My parents had strickly portion control and you got assigned your portions based on age. So, often I still felt hungry. Is this now the pitfall in my weight gain???

I also believe that the gen-manipulation in our grain, vegetables and meat has an impact on our weight. Grain, soy and corn is manipulated to increase weight gain in the animals it is fed to. Some of this manipulated grain is also used in our food chain/production. So, if it makes the ox/bull/cow/chicken/pig fat it probably makes us fat as well. Kinda logic, or...????
The food we eat has more energy in less quantity.....soon we just need to swallow a pill and cover our energy need for a day...LOL....but it doesn't eliminate the natural hunger pattern.
I try to refrain from processed food as much as possible, but use it sometimes out of time management or convinience.

Also, circumstances in your life, like sedentary desk job, family-less personal time, convinience (car, mail order) makes you less active, even we try to balance this with physical exercise....as a child I was more outside and playing in nature (climbing trees, building huts, chaising siblings).

I think a lot of reasons factor in of weight gain and the knowledge to avoid it. Interesting post though to see all these opinions.