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Obesity Epidemic Summary

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Obesity has become a world-wide epidemic that affects every country and gender that exists. Obesity can result from poor nutrition, insufficient amount of exercise, or a lack of knowledge on how to care for one’s body. In general, many women suffer from being overweight. The article I read explains how some women, no matter what ethnicity, suffer from being considered over- weight during pregnancy. The article goes into further detail to explain how women feel about gaining weight while pregnant, what they believe to be considered healthy or unhealthy, and how they feel about their healthcare provider’s service to them while being pregnant. The articles states, “In the United Stated, 35.8% of reproductive age women (20-39) …show more content…

1). This statistic raises concern for both the individual and the baby. The chances of experiencing many health problems such as preeclampsia, birth defects, gestational diabetes, and still birth increase when a female is overweight and unhealthy while caring a child. The article states that most women thought that gaining 20 pounds was not a big deal, but numerous of these complications just mentioned could be decreased when overweight women set boundaries to their weight gain between eleven and twenty pounds (Kominiarek et al, 2015). In this particular study, there were four groups that consisted of three to six people per group. The study was over a four month period and 16 participants completed the study; most of the patients were non-Hispanic black (Kominiarek et al, 2015 Pg. 4). Women that participated in the study talked about how they felt uncomfortable talking to their healthcare providers about weight gain and how their providers were never strict on how much weight could be gained throughout the pregnancy. The healthcare providers were also a part of a focus group that showed some interesting facts. The article states, “The providers did not feel comfortable discussing weight with obese women and had to motivate themselves to start the discussion”

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