America’s Biggest Pastime
Food, cancer, and smoking, they all kill. In recent years more Americans are overweight than ever. One should care because one day someone they love or their children could die as a result of being overweight. It is clear that obesity is a problem, but how does one solve this problem? After reading this one will see that educating people about healthy choices is the best way to solve the obesity epidemic.
Before one can even begin to solve this problem they must know more about obesity, and how it has become such an issue. Obesity has not always been a problem, an article by Harvard’s T.H. Chan states, “In 1990, obese adults made up less than 15 percent of the population in most U.S. states” (2017). As one can see obesity was not a problem about twenty-five years ago, it has only been a problem for about the past ten years. Chan supports this by saying, “By 2010, 36 states had obesity rates of 25 percent or higher, and 12 of those had obesity rates of 30 percent or higher” (2017). Seeing that obesity is a problem people have said the fast food restaurants are to blame or all of the diets that promise fast weight …show more content…
To clarify a fad diet is a diet that promises quick weight loss through what is usually an unhealthy and unbalanced diet, according to UPMC. By definition, one can see that fad diets can be dangerous, and to show how to lose weight properly one should look at Stephanie Miller who lost 153 pounds. In the article describing how she lost her weight, it states, “The key to losing now seems to be patience. While I was losing 8 to 10 pounds a month in the beginning, now I'm losing only 4 to 5 pounds a month” (Ebbert 1991). This shows that losing weight very slowly, usually one to two pounds a week is the best way to lose weight, and if more people knew that then maybe the obesity epidemic would not be such a major
Food, cancer, and smoking, they all kill. In recent years more Americans are overweight than ever. One should care because one day someone they love or their children could die as a result of being overweight. It is clear that obesity is a problem, but how does one solve this problem? After reading this one will see that educating people about healthy choices is the best way to solve the obesity epidemic.
Before one can even begin to solve this problem they must know more about obesity, and how it has become such an issue. Obesity has not always been a problem, an article by Harvard’s T.H. Chan states, “In 1990, obese adults made up less than 15 percent of the population in most U.S. states” (2017). As one can see obesity was not a problem about twenty-five years ago, it has only been a problem for about the past ten years. Chan supports this by saying, “By 2010, 36 states had obesity rates of 25 percent or higher, and 12 of those had obesity rates of 30 percent or higher” (2017). Seeing that obesity is a problem people have said the fast food restaurants are to blame or all of the diets that promise fast weight …show more content…
To clarify a fad diet is a diet that promises quick weight loss through what is usually an unhealthy and unbalanced diet, according to UPMC. By definition, one can see that fad diets can be dangerous, and to show how to lose weight properly one should look at Stephanie Miller who lost 153 pounds. In the article describing how she lost her weight, it states, “The key to losing now seems to be patience. While I was losing 8 to 10 pounds a month in the beginning, now I'm losing only 4 to 5 pounds a month” (Ebbert 1991). This shows that losing weight very slowly, usually one to two pounds a week is the best way to lose weight, and if more people knew that then maybe the obesity epidemic would not be such a major