Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater. BMI is calculated from a person ’s weight and height and provides a reasonable indicator of body fatness. Obesity is just about everywhere you look‚ a guy walking down the street‚ in the park on a bench or at fast food restaurant. Becoming overweight is becoming a fad here in America and many other countries‚ but some people don’t realize that being overweight can change your life and not for the good. There are many ways that obesity
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A DANGEROUS PROBLEM: OBESITY Today‚ obesity that many teenagers suffer from is a serious and an ongoing problem. There are a lot of reasons for this problem. For example‚ teenagers eat fast food‚ they have an unhealthy diet‚ and they consume too many calories in a day. In addition‚ they don’t do exercise regularly. As a result of obesity‚ teenagers gain too much weight‚ they have psychological problems‚ and the risk of having heart diseases increases. Thus‚ obesity is a dangerous problem
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Society’s Impact on Obesity 1 Society’s Impact on Obesity Suzanne Kiesler Com 220 June 02‚ 2010 Axia College of University of Phoenix [pic] Obesity is on the rise in the Nation and society’s way of dealing with it is to ridicule‚ criticize‚ and blame the overweight person for their problem. CNBC reports that “ two out of three Americans are overweight (2010)”‚ and what society does not realize is that even though some people can control their weight problem
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Today in the world we live in‚ 25% of white children are overweight and 33% of African American children are overweight. Those numbers are staggering. Also about 45% of all diabetes cases diagnosed in children are as a result of obesity. We all live in a very hectic world‚ and I realize that. Everyone has somewhere to be‚ weather it be work or a social event and to be honest‚ we really don’t take care of our kids. It is found more and more that we as a society don’t get our children involved. Less
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Physical Education Counts Obesity is a growing problem among children and teens in the United States; over thirty percent from ages six to nineteen are overweight. Many youth come up with different excuses for their weight issues: fast foods‚ not enough time to exercise‚ television/entertainment‚ and having no time to fix healthy foods along with many others. Though weight problems do not originate from only one source‚ there is a place that really needs improvement. One major problem that contributes
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International Journal of Obesity (2013) 37‚ 61–67 & 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited All rights reserved 0307-0565/13 www.nature.com/ijo PEDIATRIC ORIGINAL ARTICLE A longitudinal analysis of gross motor coordination in overweight and obese children versus normal-weight peers E D’Hondt1‚2‚ B Deforche1‚2‚ I Gentier1‚3‚ I De Bourdeaudhuij1‚ R Vaeyens1‚ R Philippaerts1 and M Lenoir1 BACKGROUND: The relationship of childhood overweight (OW) and obesity (OB) with motor skill and coordination
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Are Americans eating themselves to death? Obesity has been a bigger and bigger problem in the United States over the past few years. The percentage of overweight American children and teens has more than doubled in the past decade (Greenblatt). There are many reasons that could lead to the increasing percentage of people being obese in American. The U.S. food industry aggressively markets high-fat‚ high-sugar‚ super-sized foods. Modern communities encourage driving rather than walking. Physical
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you this very epidemic was in your house right now? America is at war right now and we are losing. This war started many years ago and has not yet been won. 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
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Physical activity is a crucial ingredient to children and adolescents leading a healthy life. Not only does physical activity help improve overall health and well-being‚ but physical activity can also help prevent future disease and health risks. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2008). When children and adolescents are physically active at a younger age it helps to improve overall health and tends to then lead to a healthier lifestyle in the long run. (U.S. Department of Health and
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in the last forty-years‚ with one in every seven of these children meeting the criteria for obesity (Better Nutrition 28). Children‚ like the rest of Americans‚ are living more and more sedentary life styles. Childhood obesity in school-aged children is rising‚ and it’s the responsibility of the parents to prevent this from happening to their own children. Much more than an aesthetic issue‚ childhood obesity is a major health problem. Today‚ one in five school-age children fulfill the medical definition
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