Obesity in Children and Aduls

Fast food has a harmful effect on society because it can cause obesity. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry believes obesity “Overweight children are much more likely to become overweight adults unless they adopt and maintain healthier patterns of eating and exercise.” (parag. 1).The causing and treating of obesity is complex but it is the most recognizable disease. Consistently eating fast food and a poor can lead to obesity in anyone. The risks of obesity include an increased risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. According to the American Heart Association, fast food “Studies have shown that over the past four decades, consumption of food eaten away from home has also risen alarmingly” (parag. 8). This means that fast food is high in fat, sugar, salt, carbs, calories, saturated and trans fats. This type of eating leads to a higher body mass index or gained weight. Children and adolescents are at a

Consuming fast food is also associated with poor health outcomes, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.5

According to the Endocrine Society webpage, obesity is an enormous concern in the United States and it is related with diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. People with obesity have a higher risk of suffering a heart attack, abrupt cardiac death, angina, and cardiac arrhythmia than those that have a healthy body. Fat accumulation promotes higher levels of triglycerides and bad-cholesterol, and reduces the level of good cholesterol. Other potential health problems for obese people could be a stroke incident or renal failure. In the same way, overweight is a characteristic of young women diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, hormonal dysfunction, and infertility. Furthermore, most of the people with diabetes (Type 2) are obese. The National Health and Nutrition

Obesity is an expensive and extremely common public health issue that affects more than one-third of the United States population including 17 percent

In America childhood obesity statistics show that almost 60 percent of children are obese. This statistic continues to grow at an alarming rate. 70 percent of obese adolescence become obese adults. This means when these children grow into adults they will have more health problems than they already do and their quality of life will decrease. The amount of children who are obese between ages 6-11 years old has risen from 6.5 percent in 1980 to 19.6 percent, in 2008. In adolescents ages 12-19 years old the obesity rates risen from 5.0 percent in 1960 to 18.1 percent in 2008. Last year the United States government stated that obesity and type 2 diabetes have become a national epidemic.

Morgan commented on how losing the weight was extremely difficult and purging himself from fast food was almost like being weaned off an addicting drug. I believe that one of the main causes for an increasingly overweight and obese American population is the fast food industry. With fast food being convenient and cheaper the average busy American turns to it as a source of nutrition more times than not. Fast food in general is high in fat and sugars with little nutritional value.

The main contributing factors can be categorised as advancements in technology and the increasing restrictions placed on time spent at work and on personal time. The ongoing consequences of these factors inevitably lead to a increasing reliance on quick and easy to prepare meals at home or high fat take out food.

Obesity has been a problem in America for multiple years. Obesity rates in the United States are going to increase 37% in the next twenty-five years (Pomeranz 2009). According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases 68.8% of adults are overweight or obese, one in every 20 people or 6.3% of adults have extreme obesity and 3 in every 4 males or 74% of males are obese (Overweight and Obesity 2009). Once someone comes to the realization that they are obese, it can be hard to turn their life around and lose some of that weight that is making them obese. Obesity can be the cause of multiple health related issues that Americans face. For example, obesity can cause type two diabetes, cardio metabolic disease,

Obesity is becoming one of the biggest problems in the country, but there has to be reasons for it. It can be the economy, society now, or people and companies. It’s time that our country starts to realize that we can’t live like this anymore. We need to see what is causing the sudden rise in obesity, and what we can do to fix it. Education of risks and solutions can be very helpful. Obesity is killing so many people, yet is still 100 percent avoidable. Our country is beginning to care less and really let themselves go. The fast food industry, supermarkets, and schools are the ones at fault for the spreading problem of obesity.

The third article that was used made great points as to what happens to someone when they go from childhood obesity to adult obesity. Roloff at the beginning of the article uses statistics to back what she is trying to say: “Federal statistics indicate that as of 2001, one in five adults were obese. That’s roughly 45 million people. Almost twice that many fall into the next category, overweight. Some 15 percent of children, ordinary the

In the United States the society needs to work on controlling this problem known as obesity. It is a problem that if does not get controlled sooner than later, will spiral out of hand even more. Before this spirals out of control society needs to take action to reducing the cost of healthy food amongst middle-low class citizens so they can eat the

“Childhood Obesity in Florida.” States of Obesity. Trust for America's Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2014. Web. 14 Oct. 2014.

1. According to the Center for Disease Control, more than one third of adults in the United States are obese.

Supporting point 2: Overweight or obese people increase due to too much intake of fast food.

In 1921 the very first fast food restaurant (White Castle) born in the United States. Through almost one hundred years develop, right now America has at least 50,000 fast food restaurant. In order to satisfy the needs of more people, fast food restaurant and manufacturers managed to increase servings and portions while simultaneously decreasing the prices, and then the fast food become the one of the most popular food in America. Fast food is one of the most important industry that rise up the American economics. But the fast food is not a health choice for daily meal, fast food brings up a huge social problem - health issue. An Obesity epidemic has occurred in the United States, the Type-2 Diabetes rampant in young patients, and allowing Cardiovascular Disease to become common for many bystanders. From those change of America, America become the most overweight country and the number of overweight population still increasing year by year. As eating fast food is not a health choice, who should responsible for people get overweight as eating fast food or having some unhealthy eat habit, also how to educate people to reverse the ever growing obesity epidemic.