Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, and strokes are all issues that citizens attempt to avoid. However, more than one-third of Americans are already at risk of being affected by these horrible symptoms. Affecting nearly 36% of adults in America, obesity has been linked with all of the issues previously stated. Although many Americans are aware of ways to avoid obesity, the amount of obese citizens keeps climbing.
Obesity is the term used when a person has an excess amount of body fat. It is a result of a disbalance between energy consumed and energy used. Energy is often referred to as calories. When more calories are consumed than are burned, weight gain occurs and can lead to obesity. On the other hand, when less …show more content…
This is because a lot of the symptoms that stem from obesity can be passed through genetics. For example, it is expected that one in three children born in the 21st century will develop, or be born with, diabetes according to the World Health Organization. Another reason that obesity will spread through generations is because of knowledge. The typical person does not recognize the nutritional facts of many foods before they eat it. The majority of humans do not eat the recommended amount of servings for fruits and vegetables either. Due to the ignorance that people have when it comes to eating healthy, it is easy to see why obesity has affected so many people. This ignorance should not be taken lightly, however, because if our youth is unaware of the threat obesity poses, it will spread into the generations that follow. Obesity is also the biggest contributor to ill-health, and accounts for somewhere between five and seven percent of the national health expenditure in the United States. This means that when it comes to preventing obesity, time is literally …show more content…
I strongly advise you to use your authority as the President of the United States to help implement countermeasures to prevent obesity in our nation, and globally. By increasing knowledge, strategizing the most efficient way to distribute food evenly, and increasing physical activity, we can be the generation to reverse obesity’s ever-strengthening hold on the human race. If we can work with the rest of the world to achieve our goals, we can prosper. In the future, obesity will not exist outside of history books, and we can be the ones to make it
Obesity is the term used when a person has an excess amount of body fat. It is a result of a disbalance between energy consumed and energy used. Energy is often referred to as calories. When more calories are consumed than are burned, weight gain occurs and can lead to obesity. On the other hand, when less …show more content…
This is because a lot of the symptoms that stem from obesity can be passed through genetics. For example, it is expected that one in three children born in the 21st century will develop, or be born with, diabetes according to the World Health Organization. Another reason that obesity will spread through generations is because of knowledge. The typical person does not recognize the nutritional facts of many foods before they eat it. The majority of humans do not eat the recommended amount of servings for fruits and vegetables either. Due to the ignorance that people have when it comes to eating healthy, it is easy to see why obesity has affected so many people. This ignorance should not be taken lightly, however, because if our youth is unaware of the threat obesity poses, it will spread into the generations that follow. Obesity is also the biggest contributor to ill-health, and accounts for somewhere between five and seven percent of the national health expenditure in the United States. This means that when it comes to preventing obesity, time is literally …show more content…
I strongly advise you to use your authority as the President of the United States to help implement countermeasures to prevent obesity in our nation, and globally. By increasing knowledge, strategizing the most efficient way to distribute food evenly, and increasing physical activity, we can be the generation to reverse obesity’s ever-strengthening hold on the human race. If we can work with the rest of the world to achieve our goals, we can prosper. In the future, obesity will not exist outside of history books, and we can be the ones to make it