Obesity Is The Most Prevalent Nutritional Problem

Obesity is becoming a major problem due to many causes and because of that people are struggling with obesity these days. Obesity in America is one of the major public health concern right now. Especially when Fast food now is increasing in bad way and it’s easily these days to find fast food near you or away from you. Things is different right with all these changes been made to our society. The good side of that change comes with the bad side. The problem is people are inventing technology that makes the life easier and make the person lazier, such as the computers, tablets and etc. Lacks of healthy lifestyle, people are changing healthy diet with unhealthy ones, and Obesity affects our health by having disease,

Obesity in the United States is an epidemic of growing proportions. According to the Center for Disease Control more than one-third (34.9% or 78.6 million) of U.S. adults are obese. ("Adult Obesity Facts", 2014). Obesity is defined as a body mass index or BMI, over 30. A person’s height and weight are used to determine BMI but does not measure how much body fat a person has.

Mental health disorders play a major role in today’s society. The National Alliance on Mental Illness states that one in five adults have a mental illness: major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar depressive disorder, and/or anxiety disorder. 1 Mental disorders are not the only major disorders to worry about today. Obesity is the most common epidemic today. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, more than two in three United States adults are classified as either overweight or obese, and more than one in three adults are classified as obese. Furthermore, one third of children and adolescents are classified as overweight, and more than one in six children and adolescents are classified as obese. 2 The Body Mass Index is classified as 18.5 to 24.9 as a normal body weight, 25 to 29.9 as overweight, 30-39.9 as obese, and greater than 40 as extreme obesity. 2 The National Obesity Conservatory found that obese people have an increased risk of developing depression, and a depressed person has an increased risk for becoming obese. A recent meta-analysis from the International Journal of Obesity found a new link between obesity and various anxiety disorders. 3 Three fourths of all mental illness will emerge in adolescence or early adulthood. This literature review is going to discuss various articles that link diet choice and obesity with the prevalence of mental illness in adults, children, and adolescents. It will provide

Obesity is a global problem. Obesity is becoming common, costly, and deadly. Nearly 70% of Americans are overweight or obese. Kansas is the 13th most overweight state in the country. “More than a third of adult residents designated as obese” (Dunn, 2015). The obesity rate in the 45 states that the research was conducted in did not change, but the rate in Kansas raised. “The Kansas obesity rate has risen every year since the government started collecting data in 1995; back then the obesity rate sat at 13.5 percent.”(Dunn, 2015). In Kansas, men have a higher obesity rate than women. Also, black people have a higher obesity rate than Latinos and white people . Middle-aged Kansas residents are the highest in the group amongst all the age

The topic chosen was on obesity, the reason why this topic was chosen is obesity has now become a major health epidemic. Americans are increasing becoming overweight, which is leading to several major health problems that is costing our health care systems billions of dollars a year to treat. This is a health related problem that can be prevented if individuals were to make better choices when it comes to their diet and activities. The reason these three articles were chosen are they provide primary prevention on obesity and explain many reason as to why individuals are overweight. Years ago it was thought obesity was genetic, but as of today we now know there are more factors involved.

Obesity is a growing epidemic that is puts lives at risk but can be controlled. This worldwide epidemic affects people of all ages. This is all just a matter of unhealthy diets. Most people consume unhealthy foods or mass amounts of food on a daily basis. The key to keeping obesity at a low is to watch what you consume and how much of it you consume.

Obesity poses a major public health challenge. Each year, obesity contributes to an approximate 112,000 preventable deaths. Besides suffering from physical illnesses, obese adults and children may also experience social characterization and injustice, as well as many emotional problems. Being obese makes it hard to function on a daily basis. Twenty years ago, none of the states in the U.S. had an obesity rate above 15 percent. Today, out of the 50 states, there are 41 states with obesity rates that exceed 25 percent, according to the Trust for American 's Health. Obesity often results from taking in more calories than are burned by exercise and normal daily activities. A study done by the Centers of Disease Control showed that since 1980, one third of our adult population has become overweight. America is the richest but also the fattest nation in the world, and our obese backsides are the butt of jokes in every other country (Klein 28).This paper seeks to explore the obesity in America by investigating if obesity is a disease or a human lifestyle, how it effects the outlook on life, how to prevent it, and why healthier foods are more expensive than unhealthy foods.

Considered as a disease by society since 2013, obesity has become a growing epidemic. It results from consuming an overly excessive amount of calories than the approximated two thousand that are necessary for everyday use. The extra calories that are not burned for immediate energy are stored as fat. This eventually leads to an accumulation of fat and thus, generates a large weight gain. It was once believed that obesity was only an issue for the developed countries, but globalization has changed this. As undeveloped countries transitioned from a traditional diet to a more western one, the rate of worldwide obesity has doubled since 1980. A western diet primarily consists of highly processed foods. This type of food is composed of high concentrations of sugar, sodium, fats, and carbohydrates. Through trade and multinational fast-food companies, globalization has allowed greater access to these very cheap and unhealthy processed foods. The trend of globalization increasing the number of obese people has been labeled by the World Health Organization as “globesity” (Brunner-Brown 1).

The underlying physiological, psychological, and social causes for this epidemic are complex and not fully understood. Yet, from a nutritional point of view, obesity is clearly the end result of a sustained imbalance between food intake and energy expended. The extra caloric input is primarily converted into glycogen and triglycerides (fat), which are stored in the liver and adipose tissue, respectively. In response to changing energy demands hepatic glycogen is converted into

In the United States today, obesity has become an enormous problem. In the last three decades, the number of people overweight has increased dramatically. A study done by the Centers of Disease Control showed that since 1980, one third of our adult population has become overweight. America is the richest but also the fattest nation in the world, and our obese backsides are the butt of jokes in every other country (Klein 28). The 1980s were a time when Americans suddenly started going crazy over dieting, jumping onto the treadmills, and buying prepackaged non-fat foods. However, while all of that was going on, the number of obese Americans began to increase. Approximately 34.9% of people in America are obese. According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, fifty eight million people in our country weigh over 20 percent of their bodies ideal weight.The article “Fat Times” states, “If this were about tuberculosis, it would be called an epidemic” (Elmer-Dewit 58). The eating habits of society have steadily become more harmful and have started to produce gluttonous children, over-indulgent adults, and a food industry set too much on satisfying our appetites.

For community and public health nurses alike, the battle against obesity is a health issue of great importance. Obesity is shown to be directly responsible for many of the negative health issues we see today. It contributes to higher risk of having chronic disease and poor health (which will be explained). Obesity is a nationwide epidemic stretching across the whole human development spectrum: from childhood obesity, adolescent obesity and adult obesity. The prevalence of children being overweight is growing and moving rapidly fast. Therefore, to address the obesity epidemic, community and public health nurses work at combating the causality on the local plane, state plane, and society as a whole. Their action also involves working with the policy makers to put in place the right policies that will make the most difference. In this paper, I will explain what is obesity, why it’s an important health concern, what are nurses doing to intervene, how do we solve and find the right answers to change the rates of obese Americans. And, what are the current inter-collaborations of the healthcare team as it relates to the community and public health.

Obesity is a health crisis in the United States (US) as well as all over the world (American Heart Association, 2015). It is estimated that 20% of the adult population in the world will be obese by 2030 (Jones & Bloom, 2015). According to Centers for Disease control and Prevention (CDC, 2015), more than one-third of the US adult population is obese and in the last 20 years the prevalence of obesity in the adult population have escalated dramatically from 15% to 35%. These trends have significantly increased the health risks (CDC, 2015). In the US, obesity is more prevalent in African-Americans than whites. The African-American adults are approximately 1.5 times obese than the whites (CDC, 2015). According to Lancaster, Carter-Edwards, Grilo, Shen, and Schoenthaler (2014), disease conditions associated with obesity, such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, stroke and some types of cancers are dominant in African-Americans, especially in African-American females. The sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy food habits, and physical inactivity are the main contributing factors of the escalating problem of obesity (Knutsen, Terragni, & Foss, 2011). Without appropriate interventions, this problem could drastically increase the risk of comorbidities that can adversely affect the healthcare system and the economy of the US.

A steadily increase in childhood obesity has gained the awareness of everyone. Many are wondering that today 's obese children may turn into the generations next obese adults. Obesity is a global issue, and being knowledgeable of the causes is an affection way of prevention. Technology, foods, and genes all factor into the childhood obesity epidemic. For example, “McDonald 's even has toys in their food, increasing production and influencing students to eat it more” (Qtd. by Marcia). It is certainly helping increase trends. “The overall health didn 't increase in the US between 2010 and 2011( (United Health Foundation).” A child is considered obese when they are above or at the 95th percentile with his/her peers. Obesity puts children at risk for health problems down the road. Strokes, heart issues, etc. are many problems in connection with it. Adults of today were limited to the exposure of these problems. Easy/unrelented access technology, fast food, and genes have been major factors. “Also, nearly 60% of children use technology for three hours or more daily”(Qtd. by Marcia Clemmit).Using most of your day outside of school inactive is a major problem, and what 's worse, is that parents allow it as children are influenced by their actions. Also, genes are another factor as children maintain genes where they have no control of, increasing their chances of being obese further in life. In general, obesity is factored upon major things like technology, fast foods, and

Obesity is an issue that occurs more often in society today, and to be obese means that an individual has too much body fat which comes from factors in example as muscle, bone, fat, and their body water. Obesity occurs over a period where an individual consumes more calories than they use throughout a day. Factors that may lead to obesity can include the person’s weight, their genetic composition, overeating, eating foods high in fats, and not being physically active throughout that period. The Body Mass Index (BMI) is still used to estimate the body fat of someone over the 20% threshold of average fatness, and anyone over that threshold would be declared obese according to the BMI. With the BMI being measure from average weights and the

The obesity is a major health problem in the United States, the obesity means an excess amount of fat of human body due to genetic and environmental factors. The measuring tool of obesity is the body mass index, the obese persona has a body mass index of 30 or more. Also, the waist circumference is another tool used to measure obesity, for obese women the waist circumference of 35 inches or more, and for obese men, the waist circumference is 40 inches or more.