Obesity has become an epidemic in society today more than 78.6 million adults are obese. More than one-third of the children in America are obese as well. People who are overweight require more medical treatment than normal weight people. In 2008 obese people spent 1,429$ more dollars then healthy weight people. Childhood obesity is becoming a negative epidemic. Health professions urge people to get their weight under control to prevent further damage to their bodies. Are medical researchers exaggerating the health risk associated with obesity? Obesity is a real problem and the medical researchers are right to overemphasis the risk. Obesity has become a public problem in the United States. Obesity is described as having a BMI over in the 95th
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Obesity has been related to hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, and respiratory problems.”(“Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: The Evidence Report...”) The higher a person’s BMI is the more likely their blood pressure is to increase. When a person has high blood pressure and high cholesterol heart disease can become present. Coronary heart disease is when plague starts to build up and will clog a person’s arteries. Which can eventually lead to less oxygen being flowed to the heart and can lead to a heart attack. Congestive heart failure is a major cause of death among obese people. Women who have a BMI over forty are more at risk for developing gallbladder stones. Than those of women who have a BMI of twenty-four or less. Gallstones are hard pieces mostly made of cholesterol that sit on a person’s gallbladder. There was a study done with twin middle aged women to see if osteoarthritis was correlated with obesity. The twin that had osteoarthritis was about eleven pounds heavier than her sister. When a person carries around a load of weight they are putting more stress on their joints. Overtime it can lead to issues in weight baring joints such as osteoarthritis. Type 2 diabetes is when the body’s blood sugar level is higher than normal. This is mainly due to the body not producing enough insulin over time because the body doesn’t use insulin properly. Diabetes is also one of the leading causes in death amongst obese and overweight
Obesity has been related to hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, and respiratory problems.”(“Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: The Evidence Report...”) The higher a person’s BMI is the more likely their blood pressure is to increase. When a person has high blood pressure and high cholesterol heart disease can become present. Coronary heart disease is when plague starts to build up and will clog a person’s arteries. Which can eventually lead to less oxygen being flowed to the heart and can lead to a heart attack. Congestive heart failure is a major cause of death among obese people. Women who have a BMI over forty are more at risk for developing gallbladder stones. Than those of women who have a BMI of twenty-four or less. Gallstones are hard pieces mostly made of cholesterol that sit on a person’s gallbladder. There was a study done with twin middle aged women to see if osteoarthritis was correlated with obesity. The twin that had osteoarthritis was about eleven pounds heavier than her sister. When a person carries around a load of weight they are putting more stress on their joints. Overtime it can lead to issues in weight baring joints such as osteoarthritis. Type 2 diabetes is when the body’s blood sugar level is higher than normal. This is mainly due to the body not producing enough insulin over time because the body doesn’t use insulin properly. Diabetes is also one of the leading causes in death amongst obese and overweight