This essay aims to discuss health issues related to obesity including causes, prevention and

There are more than 300,000 yearly deaths caused from obesity in the USA and 80% are in subjects with a BMI greater than 30 (Allison et al., 1999). Other health conditions caused by obesity could also lead to death if not taken proper care of. There are still risks of obesity that are not studied or looked at as much as the other risks that may continue to infect our population as obesity does.

In today’s society, the amount of overweight and obese individuals has been increasing at a drastic rate. The main discussion is the increase in rates of childhood and adolescent obesity, the health impacts this can have on a child immediately and in the future, and what are the contributing factors to this increase in obese youths. A possible contributing factor is food advertisements that contain poor-nutrient food and are targeted at children. Children and adolescents are constantly exposed to various advertisements on a daily basis. Many studies have suggested that there would be an overall reduction in obesity and overweight rates with the ban or reduction of nutrient-poor food advertisements. The combination of advertisements of poor food choices, with increased technology use, along with less time spent doing physical activities are all huge contributing factors to obesity. Based on the data from the various studies, there should be a ban on advertisements in order to help reduce the amount of obese and overweight children and adolescents.

Obesity is a very important risk factor which may cause many fatal diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, and cancer (Martinez). The prevalence of obesity in the United States has been continuing to rise because society has not been taking care of itself. Many changes in day to day activity patterns and also diet have been provided for people to follow in order to keep themselves healthy and in shape. Some still might believe the reason behind obesity is the fact that the government is not helping them out, or the types of food the government produces, affects the cause of obesity. Obesity is a matter of personal responsibility, which has nothing to do with the government.

In the last 35 years, obesity has nearly doubled worldwide. According to the world health organisation (WHO), over 1.4 billion adults were overweight in 2008. More than 200 million men out of these were obese and just less than 300 million women were obese. Of the world’s population, countries holding 65% of the population have more deaths due to obesity than underweight. As a result of obesity, every year 2.8 million adults die from destructive consequential burdens like diabetes that has 44% of the deaths of the 2.8 million adults, 23% of deaths out of the 2.8 million were due to ischaemic heart disease, and 7% to 41% of deaths caused by particular cancer burdens. In 2011, over 40 million children less than 5 years old were classed as overweight. (World Health Organisation. 2015. Obesity and overweight. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/. [Accessed 04 June 15].)

These days eating processed food become most common and have led to the overweight and obesity. Worldwide obesity has increase more than doubled since 1980. McDonald’s serving 46 million people in 118 countries that has 30,000 restaurant (brownell & horgen, 2004). Eating junk food has led to obesity and being overweight is not just how you look, the more you become overweight the more risk will increase of developing various health problems. There are many reasons of being obese, their risk in health developments and the solution of get rid of this problem. How to motivate people to have a healthier diet than eating junk food to become a healthier person.

Whereas adults can make their own decisions about what foods to eat each day and in what quantity, children are by virtue of their age and their dependence on adults unable to make these same decisions (Papoutsi et al., 2013).

Obesity is a major issue in the U.S.A. It is among the highest health problems in the U.S.A. Obesity can lead to heart disease, diabetes, some types of cancers, and can also lead to death .Two out of three Americans are considered to be obese. For a better future of the country obesity must be stopped.

Over the past few decades, the threat of obesity has escalated from being a minor issue to a pervading epidemic. Ironically, while people in third world countries struggle with malnutrition and starvation, Americans have to face the consequences of excessive consumption and accumulation of body fat. Researchers have recently found that as one’s weight increases to obese levels, the individual is susceptible to developing all sorts of detrimental health conditions such as thoracic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, hypertension, and cancer (Bray, 2004). However, despite having exposed the numerous threats of obesity, further research indicates that there is still a conspicuous trend in the exponential increase of obese Americans. Putting it into quantitative perspective, obesity in children between ages nine and eleven increased from 7 percent in 1980 to almost 18 percent in 2012 (Ogden et al., 2012). Similarly, obesity in adolescents between the ages twelve and nineteen exacerbated from 5 percent to 21 percent, and between 2009 and 2010, approximately one-thirds of American adults were considered obese. These statistics reveal a potential health disaster that could ensue if the problem is continued to be left unaddressed. Thus, it is imperative to identify the combination of various risk factors that continue to facilitate this spread of the obesity epidemic among American children and adults. By accomplishing this, effective solutions to reverse and prevent obesity

Obesity has become a common problem in society. The main debate now, is why it has suddenly become so prominent and how we can help lower the obesity rate in future generations. There are many different beliefs surrounding obesity and this article is one of the more controversial ones. Included in this article are different types of experiments and evidence that are meant to sway the audience in to agreeing with the author, even if that means mocking and criticizing the evidence and theories he disagrees with. We have always believed that obesity was caused by a lack of exercise and a healthy diet, but this article challenges that.

Obesity continues to be a growing problem in the U.S. with diet and lifestyle as two major contributors. Americans are becoming less active and eating more unhealthy foods that are easily accessible. Diet and lifestyle seems to be the more obvious causes for obesity, but there are many different factors that play a role in the continuing rise of this epidemic. Other factors include: environment, inactivity, genetics, socioeconomics, stress, medications, and illness such as hypothyroidism. Obesity may cause life threatening health risks such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes,

(“Americans’ New Way”) The leading causes of high rates of obesity in the United States is improper nutrition, excessive stress and increase of sedentary lifestyles.

In our society, obesity in children becomes a huge problem because around one third of all of the children and adolescence in USA are suffering from it. More importantly, those numbers keep increasing. Jack Shonkoff, MD mentions that children who are obese are at greater risk for diabetes, later hypertension of heart disease, asthma and a variety of other health problems (HBO Docs, 2012). Francis Collins also emphasizes that obesity puts children at greater risk of cancer and brain diseases later on in life (HBO Docs, 2012). In addition, Dr. Elsie Teveras states that she is afraid that we will have the first generation of children, whose life expectance will be lower than their parent’s (HBO Docs, 2012). It was also clearly stated that as

Obesity in New Zealand has become an national health concern to the Government, Ministry of Health and individuals as a larger number of people become affected of various ages and ethnic groups. As the third most obese nation at 26.5% of the population[1], some believe it 's an epidemic health boards and the government must address in various ways such as health promotion. Obesity is defined as "a medical condition which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent it may have adverse effects on health"[2] and can be measured using an individual 's height and weight; also known as BMI(Body Mass Index) where one is considered to be obese if they score above 30.0, and overweight if between 25-29.9. Whilst the issue has gradually become more apparent; for too long New Zealanders have focused on the 'ideal ' body type created by media, rather than the issue at hand and therefore there has been less awareness and education surrounding the increasing obese society. Consequently; like all arguments, there are opposing arguments within society with various implications as to whether obesity is a crisis in New Zealand at epidemic point, or whether we are being mislead by the media with a lack of education surrounding healthy weight.

According to Gary D. Foster, author of the article Primary Physicians’ Attitudes about Obesity and it’s Treatment ,this disease become epidemic in the society and not being solved as the patients’ fears to treat obesity is mainly due to their negative approaches towards this problem.

We are conditioned at a young age to believe the only way to be normal is to be