Analysis Of Childhood Obesity In America

This article focuses on the obesity in America compared to other countries due the diet of Americans. When looking at obesity alone, there are more obese adults living in America today – 78 million – than in any other country in the world. Obesity has grown prominent in the lives of young children over the years. Severe health effects related to childhood obesity include: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and many cancers. This article is a reliable source because The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research organization at the University of Washington that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world’s most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address
them. I will be able to use these statistics to get my overall point across that there are real effects of the diet of America as it is now, and that needs to be changed. These specific statistics initiate a reality check for how downhill America is going and how much worse it can get within the next few years if a change isn’t made.