One century ago, obesity was scarce. Today people all around the world are gaining weight, in America, over 35 percent of adults are currently suffering from obesity or overweight, it has become a serious problem in many countries. Obesity is most commonly caused by a combination of excessive consumption of food and lack of physical activity. Obese people consume more energy than the usual consumption of energy that what we really need. You can prevent obesity by changing your diet and exercise. Improving the quality of your diet like consume less high fat and sugar products, and increase the amount of fiber intake like fruits, but medicine can also reduce fat consumption.
Obesity is a disease that can be prevented, and you can be healthy again. Obesity means that having a BMI of 30 or over, whereas a BMI of 25-39 classifies as overweight. Commonly, nutritionists and doctors’ categories people as obese, overweight, healthy weight and underweight. Being obese can also be 20 percent over a person’s ideal weight. The perfect weight of a person is determined by using the individual’s age, height, and gender. There are ways to measure obesity by measuring the body fat in your body, it is hard to be measured directly. This is often measured by BMI (Body mass index). BMI is a measure of body size; it combined the person's weight and height. The result gives an idea about whether the person has the perfect weight for their height. BMI is interpreted differently for children and teens because there will be changes in height and age. For adults, BMI is interpreted as weight categories whether your overweight or fine.
So far, obesity is catching up to smoking as the number one reason for preventable death. According to the American obesity association insurance companies increase coverage for obesity care and prevention and the person’s life may be shortened by obesity. Being fat holds the risk of having diseases like heart disease and diabetes and some cancers. The good news is that it is a lot easier to prevent obesity than to treat it. Some of the medicine and drugs make great to keep weight gain, knowing your BMI, and maintain a healthy weight and getting regular physical activity are all the things you can do for yourself to fight against obesity. The key to maintaining a healthy weight isn’t a short-term change. It’s about keeping a healthy lifestyle which includes eating healthy and having a regular physical activity.
In the united states, obesity is a serious health problem; nearly 35% of Americans suffer from obesity. Obesity rates in America are the highest in the world. This is not just a weight problem it can have serious and dangerous effects on a person’s body in many ways. Holding extra body fat is linked to different long-term health effects. Overweight may increase the risk of lots of health problems including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, kidney diseases, fatty liver disease, high blood pressure and even more… one of the deadliest impacts is heart disease. In America, over 610000 people die from heart diseases, that’s one in every four death. Obesity is one of the major factors for heart disease this means that obese people have a higher risk of heart attack. ‘Atherosclerosis is a disease in which plaque builds up inside your arteries’ said by the National Heart, lung and blood institute. This disease is present ten times more often in obese people compared to Normal people. Artilleries filled with fat will reduce the blood flow to the heart which will cause a heart attack. although people all around the world started to notice the problem with obesity, particularly in America, the Problem of obesity is getting worse.
The USDA (US department of agriculture) announces that the Average American ate almost 20 percent more calories in the year 2000 than they did in 1983. Americans today eat 500 more calories than in 1980. they are noticed for their love for fast food. Fast food makes up about 11 percent of the average American diet. 3 in 4 Americans consume fast food monthly. Another favorite that Americans likes is a soft drink. Drinking soda has a lot of negative health effects of drinking soda. For example, soda increase the risk of getting diabetes because it contains a high level of sugar. Drinking one or two sugary drinks per day increases your risk for type two diabetes by 25 percent. But the major issue with drinking soda is that it is high in calories. For example, 600 ml of coca cola has 17 teaspoons of sugar and 240 calories. It would take an adult over an hour of walking to burn off that much calories of just one bottle of coca cola. 35% of US calories is solid fat or added sugar. 40 years ago, sugary drinks made up 4 percent of the US’s calories, but now, 11 percent of calories come from sugary drinks daily. Americans are less active only 1 in 3 adults gets the daily exercise that they needed. Kids in America started to become obese, they spent 7.5 hours daily on computers, televisions or video games which means that they barely exercise or even come out of their homes. Not to mention the poor US community, low-income neighborhoods, fast food Is twice as right10885common compared to fresh food, the reason may be that 23.5 million people don’t have access to a supermarket within a mile from their home which they can buy healthy and fresh ingredients. Nowadays, over one-third of normal class Americans that earn under 15000 per year are obese. Less can a quarter of higher-class American are obese. To solve this monumental problem in the US, they need to promote access to fresh foods and lower the density of fast food companies. A study shows that neighborhood with the low fast food chain and have a high amount of grocery stores have the lowest obesity rates. The government should build more parks around the community, so they can go got and exercise and finally educate children at school about nutrition. This helps children to learn the difference between healthy and nutritious foods and unhealthy foods. At home, parents can teach their kids about the importance of having a balanced diet. There are various kind of diets that supports weight lost, for example nuts, and grains is highly nutritious, an example of a nutritious nuts is the brazil nut. The brazil nuts are a delicious type of nuts that come from South American tree. It contains loads of protein and have a surprisingly high content of healthy unsaturated fats.
Nowadays, you can see fast food advertisements everywhere, whether on the internet or in real life. These ads will become a major risk of child obesity. After watching the fast food advertisements on tv or on their computer, they will precisely remember them. Teenagers spend more time in front of screens than doing other activities excluding sleeping. The fast food companies promote their products to us by only showing the bright side which makes kids believe that there is nothing bad which is literally ‘killing’ them. What these children do not know is that the advertisers will only continue to encourage them to consume their products which contains bad calories and in larger quantities. The junk food ads will severely affect their choices of making a healthy diet. and their eating behavior. I believe that if the countries government really want to protect children from eating junk food. They must limit the adverts that promote junk food. They should pay attention to the idea of healthy diet.
In conclusion, obesity is becoming a threat. People are gaining weight unhealthily. It is becoming common in children or adults all around the globe. It is not easy to lose weight but if you set your mind to it, it will not be a big deal, exercise, eat healthily and think healthy.