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Obesity in America
Obesity in America
Jessica Hernandez
Kin 340 Personal Trainer
9:00am-11:50am
Did you know that obesity can affect young children and older adults? The United States of America has the second highest obesity rate among other countries. Obesity is being overweight often based on your body mass. There are many causes of obesity such as the environment they grow up, lack of physical work, genetics, overeating, and lack of information on nutrition. Obesity was formally recognized by the World Health Organization as a global epidemic in 1997. Obesity can affect any person at any age.
According to the academic article, “Stemming the Obesity Epidemic: Are Nurses Credible Coaches?” states that “Americans …show more content…
They can start by going to the doctor to learn about obesity, on how to eat and exercise healthy. For example in the academic journal, “Obesity; Prevalence of Various Risk Factors of Heart Diseases in Obese Persons by Dr. Muhammad Arif, Faran Nasir, state that “ the main treatments of obesity are dieting and exercise. The quality of diet can be improved by reducing the intake of energy dense foods” (Muhammad Arif, Faran Nasir). People need to know how to eat healthy, like drink water instead of soda, eat lean proteins, eat whole grains, switch to fat-free or low-fat milk, eat vegetables, eat fruit, cut back on some solid fats, and more. Sometimes eating healthy is very expensive that people in some communities can’t afford it, so they eat whatever they can afford. People do not have time to exercise, but walking every day for 30 minutes is helpful to our body. In schools they do not have enought time or money to provide with classes with nutriotion and exercising. In addition they do not provide healthy …show more content…
I knew that obesity was a problem, but learning that approximately one third of children are suffering from a lifestyle disease is very disturbing to me. Additionally, this article states that children from low-income families have a higher risk of being obese or overweight. It also specifies that low-income children are less likely to be enrolled in after-school physical activity programs. At first, this was surprising to me because I went to a low-income elementary school and most of the students were enrolled in our after-school program. However, this made more sense once I continued to read this article because it said the programs at these three schools required enrollment fees. The school I went to did not have a fee for their after-school program. It definitely makes sense that low-income children would be less likely to attend programs that require any sort of
Obesity in America
Obesity in America
Jessica Hernandez
Kin 340 Personal Trainer
9:00am-11:50am
Did you know that obesity can affect young children and older adults? The United States of America has the second highest obesity rate among other countries. Obesity is being overweight often based on your body mass. There are many causes of obesity such as the environment they grow up, lack of physical work, genetics, overeating, and lack of information on nutrition. Obesity was formally recognized by the World Health Organization as a global epidemic in 1997. Obesity can affect any person at any age.
According to the academic article, “Stemming the Obesity Epidemic: Are Nurses Credible Coaches?” states that “Americans …show more content…
They can start by going to the doctor to learn about obesity, on how to eat and exercise healthy. For example in the academic journal, “Obesity; Prevalence of Various Risk Factors of Heart Diseases in Obese Persons by Dr. Muhammad Arif, Faran Nasir, state that “ the main treatments of obesity are dieting and exercise. The quality of diet can be improved by reducing the intake of energy dense foods” (Muhammad Arif, Faran Nasir). People need to know how to eat healthy, like drink water instead of soda, eat lean proteins, eat whole grains, switch to fat-free or low-fat milk, eat vegetables, eat fruit, cut back on some solid fats, and more. Sometimes eating healthy is very expensive that people in some communities can’t afford it, so they eat whatever they can afford. People do not have time to exercise, but walking every day for 30 minutes is helpful to our body. In schools they do not have enought time or money to provide with classes with nutriotion and exercising. In addition they do not provide healthy …show more content…
I knew that obesity was a problem, but learning that approximately one third of children are suffering from a lifestyle disease is very disturbing to me. Additionally, this article states that children from low-income families have a higher risk of being obese or overweight. It also specifies that low-income children are less likely to be enrolled in after-school physical activity programs. At first, this was surprising to me because I went to a low-income elementary school and most of the students were enrolled in our after-school program. However, this made more sense once I continued to read this article because it said the programs at these three schools required enrollment fees. The school I went to did not have a fee for their after-school program. It definitely makes sense that low-income children would be less likely to attend programs that require any sort of