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    Justin Brown Brown 1 English 1010 10/20/10 Obesity in America When people think about health what usually comes up is cancer‚ or some kind of disease that will hold you back. Not many people really think about one of the biggest issues out there that people don’t really take serious. It’s called Obesity‚ I know you might think you know what that means but do you really know what it is?. In America there are thousands of hundreds of people that or obese. Over 2/3rds

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    PROBLEMS OF OBESITY IN AMERICA Did you know that many Americans suffer from obesity? Sometimes obesity just happens with in time and you don’t realize it until till it’s too late. Sometimes there are things in life that unbalances you and you start to gain weight. Becoming educated help you change you becoming obese. THE PROBLEMS OF OBESITY IN AMERICA

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    Obesity Persuasive Speech

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    explianing obesity and the effect it cuases in your health not only in adults but also in childhood obesity. I will be explianing the problem there is of obesity and the solution we could all do to stop obesity. C. Establish Credibility & Goodwill: Obesity is the second leading death in the U.S. we need to re-evaluate the importance of healthy eating. We can increase awarness of obesity D.Preview the Body of the

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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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    The American Obesity Epidemic Obesity in America is on the rise now‚ with 72-million people contributing to this new “epidemic.” People need to start taking care of their bodies or they could possibly lose their lives to the leading cause of death in America—heart disease. Believe it or not‚ this epidemic isn’t just effecting the human population. Twenty-five percent of cats and dogs are now heavier than they should be. With excess weight usually comes many kinds of physiological‚ behavioral

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    Thesis: Obesity and Products

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    During the teenage years and up to early adulthood is where peers become a big part of ones. This is where body image becomes critical; teens start to try to achieve in order to get the approval of their peers (Pilliteri‚ 1998). Looking good is important to get the sense of belongingness‚ and it takes time to achieve that result‚ hence in order to hasten the process‚ teens often look toward the direction of slimming products. Diet trends such as slimming products are popular now a day but can cause detrimental

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    Child Obesity Is Epidemic

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    Child Obesity is Epidemic Child Obesity is Epidemic Rosanna Torres Western Governors University WGU student ID#: 000254815 1 Obesity is defined as an abnormal amount of body fat that causes health problems such as; diabetes‚ heart disease‚ and cancer (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2011). Obesity can be determined measuring the child’s body mass index (BMI) is calculated by the child’s height‚ weight‚ and age to determine if you have excess fat. It is known that children

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    Risk of obesity in teens

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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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    Obesity In Public Schools

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    Today‚ obesity rates are the highest they have ever been for teenagers. This is not due to genetics‚ not due to disease‚ and not because of too much junk food. Students are facing many health and life problems because of a simple mistake that schools are making. Today‚ in order to balance physical education and academics‚ schools require a minimum of two years of physical education.This is half of the four total years. The rest of the years it is optional. This may cause students to be physically

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    Fast Food and Obesity

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    Fast Food and Obesity Obesity is a medical disorder in which body fat has gathered to such an extent that it may have a negative effect on the overall health condition of a person. People are classified as obese when their Body Mass Index (BMI) measurement is greater than thirty Kg / m2‚ or their weight is twenty percent greater than normal weight (Obesity‚ WebMD). America has blamed genetics and fast food as the cause of overweight and obesity for many years‚ the fact is that it is not a "cause"

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