America’s Children. Cancer, heart disease, and diabetes are just a few health concerns that are linked with obesity; a preventable, curable, and manageable disease that hundreds of thousands of people face all around the world. The only thing worse than having to face these health issues as an adult, is having to face them as a child. Childhood obesity is becoming an epidemic in America today. This issue is leading to an unhealthy future for individual kids, but also for society as a whole. As the
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die from an obesity-related disease or disorder. Of course, this is not a surprise considering the unhealthy diets and lack of physical activity Americans are so accustomed to but what if there was a way to reduce the number of people dying from these avoidable diseases and disorders? How much money and food could the U.S government save if we just got rid of all the couch potatoes taking up most of the space in the United States? Obesity is very much a common problem in North America, specifically
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Obesity is a problem in America today, and it needs to be fixed. It turns out about 50 percent of the American population is considered obese, and its still heading that direction. What might be a perfect explanation as eating too much food and too little exercise might be one of the many reasons, but it turns out obesity is led by many other habits such as; chronic stress, sleep deprivation, laziness, or reason like not having a local grocery store close by can cause high risk of becoming overweight
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Countries such as Ethiopia and India suffer from intolerable famines. Their governments fail to provide nutrient foods in needed quantities. The government of the United States of America is one of the top countries of providing food. Through this the government has created a number of regulations and restrictions to food. One is the Meat Inspection Act protecting the consumer from necessary disease or the Drug and Food Act to which it requires products to be labeled with specific ingredients
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Introduction: In his article, “5 Myths about hunger in America,” Robert Egger (2010) links hunger to obesity, malnourishment, economic and national security, as well as wastefulness, jobs and wages. He discusses the myth that hunger is thought to only exist in poor countries and points out the increasing number of American families affected by hunger. Egger (2010) goes on to describe how malnourishment and obesity are linked to hunger due to government subsidies promoting consumption of poor
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access to quality health care. America has abundance in food, so much so that people are dying from overeating. The scale of which can be considered unprecedented, very much like the black death. Many organization has called obesity an “epidemic” because a staggering one-third of American adult are obese. In a published study by RAND Health, obesity can be considered worse than smoking or poverty due to the magnitude of health problem it causes. People with obesity is linked to more chronic disease
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and Obesity in America Mary Watts ENG 122 English Composition II Instructor: Professor James Lange July 7, 2014 According to the National Institute of Health, obesity is defined as having an excess of body fat. Obesity is more prevalent when a person has a body mass index of 30 or more. Being obese differs from being overweight, in that being overweight can be caused from extra fat, muscle, bone, or water. It is well known in the United States that obesity is a
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More than one third of American’s adult are obese. That is a whopping 7.6 million Americans. Obesity-related consequences include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer. These are some of the leading causes of preventable death. The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the U.S. was $147 billion in 2008. The medical costs for people who are obese were $1,429 higher than those of normal weight. If Americans do not change their poor eating habits by 2030 forty-two
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There are many causes of obesity, especially in America, many of which can be prevented. Throughout recent decades, the rise of an inactive lifestyle has driven the number of obese individuals in the United States to a staggering 78.6 million. Numerous Americans are unfortunately not physically active. One purpose behind this is that a copious amount of individuals invest hours watching television and doing work, schoolwork, and social media on their computers and cell phones. This problem has gotten
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Reasons there is Obesity in America. Norma A. England COMM/215 March 2, 2014 David Libhart Reasons there is Obesity in America. Obesity in America is a growing problem, doubling the percentage of people affected since 1990. (Menifield, 2008). Two thirds of Americans considered obese, having a body mass index of thirty and above. (Ward-Smith, 2010). In 2000, obese people cost the country 117 billion dollars, 61 billion dedicated to medical bills. People who are obese suffer from many medical
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