Obesity And Lack Of Exercise Essay

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    choose the topic of physical activity as the importance of preventing childhood obesity. Because childhood obesity is increasing worldwide and corrupting the lives of millions of children who won’t survive into their adulthood. Childhood obesity is a serious health issue that’s facing the United States. This topic captivated my attention to understanding the main problems and solutions to combating childhood obesity after watching; “Weight of the Nation” Children in Crisis. The types of information

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    The Ethnic minority populations, such as the African Americans, are more likely to be physically inert and experience higher levels of obesity and other sustained conditions than the other ethnic majority counterparts. This disparity may be connected in part to socio-economic status, lack of access to healthful foods and exercise facilities, and varying access to and utilization of health care services .The African Americans are likely impacted by both numerous factors such as self efficacy

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    There is a lack of exercise in all ages, especially with teenagers. With all the stress from school, grades, and friends, people usually eat more, and with a lack of exercise this is bad. This is why I strongly disagree with the idea to eliminate PE and health due to budget cuts. Fundraisers or other things can be done to get money, there are better ways to fix the school’s budget than getting rid of what most kids only source of exercise is. The movie stated that 400,000 people die of obesity every year

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    have for the lack of understanding the problems and drastic result of families with money instabilities. The standard household is able to live freely and eat their meals at the table with one another, yet there are families that are unable to eat when they want and whatever they want. Though it may be hard to understand, if looking through the wrong perspective, Americans are able to fall into a slope of stability downfall. This meaning that their income becomes scarce. With their lack of salary,

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    America. Individuals who lack physical health can eventually lead to depression and other psychological issues and vice versa. A common condition that indicates if someone is unhealthy is obesity. Obesity is the state of being highly overweight. More than half of the adults in the United States struggle with obesity every day of their lives. Obesity is influenced by multiple factors such as physiological, environmental, behavioral, and genetics. The primary cause of obesity is from the intake of large

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    Executive Summary Obesity has become an epidemic in American societies that has become a public concern. According to the American Obesity Association (AOA), overweight and obesity rates are higher than ever in America’s youth. Obesity is the fastest growing cause of disease in American society today. Some of the major health concerns for today’s youth with obesity include severe asthma, Diabetes, Hypertension, orthopedic complications and sleep apnea. Researchers have come up with many different

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    What is obesity? Obesity is an abnormal accumulation of body fat, usually 20% or more over an individual’s ideal body weight, and morbidly obese is when the body fat is 40% or higher. More recent guidelines for obesity uses a measurement called BMI (body mass index), which is the individual’s weight, multiplied by 703 and then divided by twice the height in inches. BMI of 25.9-29 is considered overweight; BMI over 30 is considered obese. Obesity is associated with an increased risk of illness, disability

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    non-communicable disease characterized by high blood glucose levels (World Health Organisation (WHO), 2016). Type 2 Diabetes is where cells are insulin resistant (WHO, 2016). Genetic factors and age influence risk of diabetes, but behavioural risk factors like obesity, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, smoking increases risk of type 2 diabetes (WHO, 2010). Diabetes lead to other health issues, like cardiovascular diseases (CVD), blindness, kidney failure, and foot ulcers, which may require limb amputation, and

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    Childhood obesity in America is a growing disease that has become an epidemic that has lasting psychological effects because of advertisement of fast food, lack of physical activities, and parental control has made food become a major health issue in many young teenagers’ lives today. Who is to blame? Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years (cdc.gov). this takes us to the focus of how childhood obesity has become an enormous issue today. For us to understand the

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    Speech On Child Obesity

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    a very young age. Child obesity is increasing terribly in India. It is hard to believe as in the same country you find thousands of homeless children who are deprived of food, nutrition and essential facilities. Many factors are linked with child obesity in India, especially it is identified that kids who belong to the upper middle class and wealthy family fall prey to obesity. Heredity, biological factors, eating habits, etc. are all some of the causes for child obesity. In common, when you don’t

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