Obesity and Genetics Stephanie Ferreyra Obesity is characterized by a high amount of body fat or adipose tissue. This condition is common‚ but varies from individual to individual. There are other factors that play a role in obesity other than eating too much of the wrong foods‚ not exercising‚ or age‚ and gender. This factor is genetics. People with genetic risk factors that affect energy metabolism and result in an inborn susceptibility to gain weight are much different than a person who loses
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Obesity in the USA Good afternoon‚ my name is Barbara. I’m standing here today‚ because the U.S got a serious problem with overweight or so called obesity and I’d like to talk about this problem. So I can make you more aware of this. The prevalence of obesity is increasing worldwide‚ in almost every country and in all age groups. The steep increase has prompted this development to be called an epidemic. Obesity has become the major nutrition- related disease of this decade‚ and is defined as a
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The sad fact is that if you are obese‚ your life probably be shorter than that of people who are slim. Obesity not only affects people’s everyday lives‚ it also has damaging mental health effects‚ including low self-esteem‚ negative body image‚ anxiety‚ and depression‚ and causes serious physical conditions such as sleep apnea‚ heart disease‚ type 2 diabetes‚ and heart failure. First‚ obesity affects a person’s everyday life. Obese people tire more easily than slim people because these people have
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__________________ MCDONALD’S AND OBESITY A case study ________________ Submitted by: Ma Alexandria Bulaon Submitted to: Professor George Fong SPGLOBMA_S71 September 25‚ 2012 I. CASE STUDY ANALYSIS A. Problems Obesity among children is increasing rapidly not only in the United States but throughout the nations around the globe.According to the reports made by the World Health Federation‚ an estimated 155 million children are
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to 11 in the year of 1974 rated 4%‚ with a dramatically increased the same age group of obese children population in the year 2004 rated 19%. II. Motivation for listening: The CDC Center For disease Control and Prevention‚ concluded that child obesity is an important factor that is attributed to many diseases including diabetes‚ high blood pressure‚ high cholesterol‚ asthma‚ and insomnia just to mention a few. There are also many side effects to these diseases‚ for example if an obese child is
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Obesity and Biology Obesity isn’t classified as an eating problem anymore. It is more than that a person’s biology plays a big roll. Cells and hormones play a big roll on how big you are and how your body regulates energy. Food equals energy and the body stores that energy in fat cells and uses the energy as needed. The metabolism breaks down that food and uses the energy generated from that food for everyday activities such as walking‚ talking‚ thinking. The faster ones metabolism is the more efficient
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Victor Barnard Childhood Obesity One of the most vital yet vulnerable parts of our society is our younger generation. An up and coming issue today is childhood obesity mostly because children in this century have been consumed more by video games and television and less by physical activity and nutrition. By targeting an audience of parents‚ teachers‚ and children‚ steps can be taken toward increasing the amount of children who grow up overweight or obese. Steps such as implementing physical
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should be raised in order to ensure that students have access to a healthy environment. In today’s day and age‚ a major problem facing America is obesity. You may be asking yourself‚ ’what does the school system have to do with how heavy kids are becoming?’. The reality is our schools play a big role in preventing health issues for our youth‚ not just obesity‚ but also health problems such as anorexia or mental health issues a child may be facing. It is the school’s responsibility to ensure that their
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exercise. Via dancing can maintain our body shapes and keep away from the overweight and avoid from disease like obesity and diabetes. Dancing also can strengthen the flexibility of the body especially is leg muscle. Besides that‚ dancing can help us build principle self discipline‚ dress neatly and punctuality. As a conclusion‚ dancing can give us many benefits via various ways. So‚ we need to take the chance and try to use the benefits to our life. We also can learn how technique to
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Food is only one of the reasons America is plus size. They do less physical activities each day than any other nations. We drive more and walk less than other people. Exercise is key to good health and an essential tool in the fight against obesity‚ but new numbers suggest that many Americans don’t get any physical activity at all. Studies by the CDC have shown that 2 out of 10 Americans get the recommended amount of exercise. Stress is also a reason Americans are overweight. The CDC also
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