industry that satisfies the world’s sweet tooth. However, market failure exists among our society and health. As a public health regulator, I am tracking policies that attempt to reduce America’s sugar consumption in response to the dramatic rise in obesity over the last thirty years. The first target is adults and the sugar beverage industry, particularly, the consumption of regular sodas. I will detail four specific policy proposals that the government should consider on the sale of regular soda: taxes
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II Obesity in the United States is at an all-time high. According to a study from 2009-2010, 35.7% of the population is obese (Ogdan, Carroll, & Kit, 2012). Obesity has been associated with a variety of diseases and has a high mortality and morbidly rate among every population in the world. One of the Healthy People 2020 initiatives is to reduce the number of obese Americans. The Surgeon General estimates that 300,000 deaths a year in the United States alone, can be linked to obesity ("Overweight
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Today, In the United States childhood obesity has become an epidemic. One out of three children is considered overweight or obese. The main enablers consist of watching TV or engaging video games while consuming fast foods instead of nutritious, home-cooked meals. On average, a child will spend four hours a day playing video games while munching on potato chips and a high calorie soda. This type of activity is directly linked to terrible grades in school, reading fewer books, and not exercising as
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Obesity in our Children Obesity rates among children as well as pregnant mothers in the Unites States are increasing and it has greatly impacted the health of those affected. Additionally, as it is explained by Katherina Maximova, children who are “exposed to overweight parents and schoolmates were more likely to misperceive their own weight status” meaning that children exposed to overweight people in their lives were more likely to not consider it an issue or a health hazard. As I was somewhat
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Demographics: Obesity HCS/490 February 24, 2013 Obesity Did you know that 30 years ago, only one in ten people were overweight? Those numbers are long gone. Today, a staggering 65% of American adults, 78 million people, are overweight and 31% of these are obese (Healy, 2012). Americans are even fatter than they think they are, especially women. Over one-third of women are obese and the majority of these women are African American or Mexican American. Over the past two decades, obesity has doubled
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Childhood Obesity Obesity has been called the "new American epidemic" by many doctors. It is estimated that fifty - eight million Americans living in the United States are obese, and that eight out of ten people who are over twenty-five are overweight. Obesity is, easily, America's fastest growing health concern. This condition, though, is not limited to American adults. Doctors have recently found that nearly thirteen percent of all American children suffer from this problem... and that statistic
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Childhood Obesity Unit 5 IP 3/13/2011 Julie Innes ENGL107 Introduction Today, In the United States childhood obesity has become an epidemic. One out of three children is considered overweight or obese. The main enablers consist of watching TV or engaging video games while consuming fast foods instead of nutritious, home-cooked meals. On average, a child will spend four hours a day playing video games while munching on potato chips and a high calorie soda. This type of activity is directly
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generally caused by a genetic disorder and only about 5 percent of childhood cases were obesity related or Type 2 diabetes." (pg. 463) America went on to donate "$2.6 billion in health care costs in 1969." This action showed that America did realize what obesity was doing to their country. Little did they know it would keep getting worse. Todays number is an astonishing "$100 billion a year" (pg. 463) The argument for obesity is that shouldn't peple know not to eat fast food every day? Braun
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Combating Childhood Obesity Charles Mullins ENG 122 Prof. Busby November 26, 2012 Combating Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is an important issue in today’s American society. The Center for Disease Control states that childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years (CDC, n.d.). Certain genetic factors paired with changing lifestyles and culture has produced kids who are generally not as healthy as people were just a few decades ago. Widespread obesity has been the extreme
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2014 Fed up The movie Fed Up discusses the issue that American eats too much currently in today’s society. According to the movie, the spread of obesity in America become a seriously problem. The movies also states the food industry in America is playing a bad role for provide us unhealthy food to make better profit. The obesity epidemic in America has occurred mostly in the past 20 years. The movie also states the 1/3 percentage of American will develop diabetes if current trends continue. The
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