stricken with obesity. Obesity‚ or excessive weight and body mass to an unhealthy extent‚ can be found all across the world and is increasing in popularity. The United States is no exception to this trend and in fact is one of the most rapid growing countries in obesity today‚ containing the highest percentage of obese persons. Obesity has become an epidemic that has had a great impact on the youth in our society. Without necessary changes being made to the way we handle childhood obesity‚ the trend
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Roberto Cavazos Writing September 27th‚ 2013 Junk food must have taxes First of all Jen Kelaidis says that‚ “Two thirds of American adults are overweighed or obese‚ and The Center for Disease Control predict that nearly half will be obese by 2030” (qtd. The Week art. 240554 par 1). For example‚ in Mexico the parents make their children eat and eat and they become obese. Second‚ Jen Kelaidis says that‚ “Obesity rates in children have more than tripled in the past three decades”
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Risk of Obesity in Teens Obesity among teenagers is very significant‚ since most of teens remain same as over weighted in adulthood if they are uninformed of the risk. The obesity is occurred when energy consumed in is not equal to the energy restrained out‚ the number of calories we eat must be burned off or else the body stores these extra calories as fat. A couple of pounds of fat may not be health risk for most people. But when people keep up pattern of eating more calories than they burn
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November 4‚ 2013 Back To The Basics Obesity has become a huge epidemic in our American society today. More than one in three adults are considered to be obese. In a survey by the CDC‚ thirteen percent of United State high school students were found to be obese which means that their body mass index was greater than the 95th percentile. Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years! Not only can being obese increase your health risks
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Poverty on the Obesity Epidemic The occurrence of obesity has become so pervasive in the United States that it is now considered an epidemic. Obesity affects about fifty percent of adults and about twenty five percent of children in the U. S. alone (Simone‚ Story‚ Jeffery par. 1).While there are several factors that contribute to obesity‚ a large concern is environmental influence. There is a direct relationship between inexpensive‚ processed‚ fast foods‚ poverty and high levels of obesity. In the past
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answer to the obesity epide Maria Ana Perez ENG 121 Composition section 406 April 9‚ 2013 Outline Introduction A. Exigency Statement: When you enter the city of Wilmington you can see a restaurant or store at every corner of every block. Food is everywhere; we all need food to survive in life. Without consuming food one will eventually die after several weeks of starvation. B. Motivator: We all can agree that today there is a big problem with obesity. Childhood obesity has more
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In these days‚ obesity is a one of serious problems in the U.S. Obesity is disease that causes weakness of bone‚ adult illness or other diseases. The number of obese people is increasing ‚and Especially childhood obesity is becoming a serious issue with many health problems and social problems. People that suffer from obesity in their childhood will have a hard time to get rid of the fat in their life. It affects not only adults‚ but also children. It can be more serious social problems.. In the
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Thesis statement: Research suggests that the obesity crisis in the US is caused primarily by lifestyle‚ the food industry and marketing practices. Annotated Bibliography Appleton‚ N. (1996). Lick the sugar habit. Garden City Park‚ NY: Avery Pub. Group. Sugar contributes to obesity as well as many other illnesses because it upsets our body chemistry allowing physical degeneration to take place in the human body. Most people aren’t aware of the addictive properties that sugar
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Every year we lose many of our beloved ones to this obese monster. What can we do? Obesity‚ the new green-eyed monster‚ and has taken America over and seemingly nothing has been done. Americans are the heaviest people in the world and have been since‚ the 1950s. With our growing wealth and appetites‚ we consume far more than three meals a day; which in some countries is a whole weeks worth of food. "In 1996‚ a U.S. Department of Agriculture study revealed that at least 33 percent of
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no secret that obesity is a huge issue. The causes of this problem can be social‚ economic and cultural‚ all of which determine how much food we eat‚ and the kind of food we eat‚ against how much exercise we do. Affecting the entire world‚ Scotland is one of the worst countries by percentage. According to professionals‚ "40% of adults in Scotland will be obese by 2030". 40%?! These figures are ridiculous‚ almost half the country obese in a few short years? Fatty and unhealthy foods. Served in every
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