Stopping Obesity in America

Stopping Obesity in America
Should America keep allowing obesity to exist or should obesity be stopped? Everyday you wake up and take a look around, you notice that almost everyone you see is overweight. Obesity needs to be stopped, because it does not contribute to any factor to help live a good life. Being Obese can only cause bad health and even death. When turning on your TV you see commercials that show food like Burger King and Mc Donald’s taken to increase the obesity rate in America.
Today many people don’t notice that businesses, around the world, does not care if they gain weight they just want them to buy their product. People just think that individuals become obese by eating food all the time, which this could be one of the problems, but there are several more causes of obesity. Obesity can be generic; it can be cause by health problems, depression, lack of exercise, and can cause low self confidence. The major problem is seen in public schools and fast food restaurants that sell the worst food for your health. In addition, the World Health Organization estimates 1.3 million people are overweight. I believe that the government should do something about this. Perhaps they should set a law that says that you can’t purchase more than three meals for the day if you weigh over your average scale in height. I don’t think that there are any great concerns as to whether the people that are over weight are being discriminated. My proposal is not to discriminate it is to help obese people lose the weight and become more confident about them selves by being healthy.
Obesity surgeries have surged in recent years along with global waistlines. In the United States alone, 177,600 operations were performed last year, according to the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery. The most common method was gastric bypass, or stomach-stapling surgery, which reduces the stomach to a small walnut-sized pouch and bypasses part of the small intestine where digestion occurs.
The Swedish study is the longest look yet at how obesity surgery affects mortality.
Researchers led by Dr. Lars Sjostrom of Goteborg University compared 4,047 people with a body-mass index over 34 who had one of three types of surgery or received standard diet advice. BMI is a standard measure of height and weight and a BMI over 30 is considered obese. After a decade, those in the surgery group lost 14 percent to 25 percent of their original weight compared to 2 percent in the other group. Of the 2,010 surgery patients, 101 died. There were 129 deaths in the comparison group of 2,037 people.
My Individual point of view shares a common purpose of what is best for people that are obese. I believe it is possible to lose weight if you maintain a certain diet. According to A group of federal researchers concluded that people with little extra pounds have a lower chance to die than people who are normal weight, underweight or obese. I suggest the following step to be healthy is to eat healthy and exercise. I just want people that are over weight to take my proposal in to consideration so that they can live a normal healthy life.

Works Cited
Mega Essays LLC 2001-2008
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ABC 7 Chicago Health base
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(Boyd, Anna) overweight people present lower death risk November 7 2007
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Cited: Mega Essays LLC 2001-2008 Megaessays.com ABC 7 Chicago Health base Medicaltourismnewsandviews.blogspot.com (Boyd, Anna) overweight people present lower death risk November 7 2007 www.Efluxmedia.com/news