America, land of the free and home of the obese. Today, the United State’s obesity rate has skyrocketed causing a health crisis. Obesity is a medical condition where a person has so much body fat, it affects their health as a whole. To determine if someone is obese or not, their BMI (body mass index) is measured. BMI is a tool used to indicate if a person is underweight, overweight, or obese by measuring your body fat based on your height and weight. Obesity is generally caused by having a bad diet and a bad exercise regime. In other words, if you consume high amounts of fats and sugars, but don’t burn off that extra energy intake by engaging in physical activities much of that extra energy will become fat and build up over time. Other causes of obesity are a high-calorie intake; calories are a unit of energy found in foods and beverages. Again, by calories being a unit of
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It is defined as any eating habit or food intake that does not meet the requirements of the body. There are various ways to eat unhealthily, you can overdo it, consuming too much food, or you can have an insufficient diet, which may include eating disorders such as bulimia an anorexia; but, for the purpose of this text, we’ll focus on the excess consumption of food. People who abuse their daily food intake are used to eating what is termed as ‘junk food’. A big problem with junk food, other than it has little to no nutritional value, is that people don’t tend to fill up an empty stomach when they eat them, which leads to overeating. Another issue is that people tend to substitute healthy snacks or meal options with sugary, calorie infused snacks and fast food meals. These bad eating habits are hard to control since junk food is accessible to everyone, most of the time, and at a low cost. Prices for packaged food are most of the time lower than fresh food or organic food, which affects a buyers decision when purchasing a meal or a
It is defined as any eating habit or food intake that does not meet the requirements of the body. There are various ways to eat unhealthily, you can overdo it, consuming too much food, or you can have an insufficient diet, which may include eating disorders such as bulimia an anorexia; but, for the purpose of this text, we’ll focus on the excess consumption of food. People who abuse their daily food intake are used to eating what is termed as ‘junk food’. A big problem with junk food, other than it has little to no nutritional value, is that people don’t tend to fill up an empty stomach when they eat them, which leads to overeating. Another issue is that people tend to substitute healthy snacks or meal options with sugary, calorie infused snacks and fast food meals. These bad eating habits are hard to control since junk food is accessible to everyone, most of the time, and at a low cost. Prices for packaged food are most of the time lower than fresh food or organic food, which affects a buyers decision when purchasing a meal or a