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Examples Of Obesity In America

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Obesity in America

Obesity is a growing epidemic in America. Obesity has increasingly become worse in America due to all the fast food restaurants and growing appetites for Americans. Obesity also increases the risk for various diseases and health issues. Some examples of diseases would be heart disease, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea gallstones, and even certain kinds of cancers. Obesity can be prevented, most people just do not take the measures to prevent it. You can exercise daily, make healthier, wiser decisions on foods you intake, and you can even make a homemade meal instead of eating Mcdonalds; and portion control is the key! ( "Overweight & Obesity.")

As Americans we have always taken the easy route, and unhealthy fast foods have …show more content…

My father Robert is dairy free so a lot of dairy free meals are also made daily for our dairy free clients. Most of the time people who have a gluten free allergy cannot eat most fast food restaurants. So we try to help others and prepare nutritious fulfilling gluten free meals that taste yummy. We do not deep fry any foods, use any white sugars, or even use regular salt. Healthy food is good, even though it is not deep fried and smothered in salt. We have so many healthy options and a lot of our clients have had life changing results just from eating our food. (“ Garrison, Robert. "Active Edge Nutrition.")

We have many clients that were a hundred plus pounds overweight, some having diabetes and other health problems that eat out food religiously. Just over a couple months they are in their correct BMI and no longer have diabetes and other health issues they had before from just eating our food. Most do not even exercise daily! We have clients of all ages, some parents feed their small toddlers our food, which is great for them! Our oldest client was one hundred years old, he recently passed he loved our …show more content…

In 2015, the rate for diabetes in adults was at 10.7 percent, imagine the percentage it has reached now. ("The State of Obesity in North Carolina.") Many doctors and physicians say obesity is a disease. In my opinion something you do to yourself is not a disease, it can be prevented and it can go away if you work on exercising and eating healthy foods. Unlike “real” life threatening diseases that cannot be prevented or cured. ("Rethink Obesity.") How can you declare obesity as a disease when people are throwing away their lives, and also are killing themselves without trying to help themselves and change their lifestyles, they are not born with obesity so you cannot say it is a disease in my

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