More that one-third of American adults is obese. (Adult) The Obesity is when a person has too much body fat. Being obese has become more and more common in America and is starting to trend. Obesity has haunted America for many generations; I will tell you about the background of obesity in America, Analyze the problem, talk about solutions, and the benefits of using the solutions. To fight something, you must know more about it and the background.
Background
What we are fighting is not just a shape or how a person looks, but how we are eating and the activity that we are involved in everyday. In schools all around the world obesity is growing due to poor nutrition and a lack of physical activity. But, not only is it showing in schools, it’s showing everywhere we look. So many people are affected by it. Not only the ones who are obese but when they have babies, it can be passed down to their young. America, and even the whole world has been dealing with obesity for a very long time. It has grown and grown and in the 1980’s obesity was first recognized as an epidemic because of all of the people it started affecting. Only recently …show more content…
There are many things that we can do to at least make the percentage go down. There are many reasons why America is still gaining. For one, people find it hard to follow through on diets. Dieting is one of the ways to lose fat. Many who are obese try this, but do not follow through with it because they find themselves unsatisfied if they do not see immediate results. Secondly, people use others who want to get fit by using weight loss pills to get rich. Many barely, or don’t help at all. They just use it to make money. Third of all, there are surgeries such as liposuctions that they take the fat out surgically. But operations like this can cost thousands of dollars. Without obesity numbers going down, we are putting ourselves in dangerous
Background
What we are fighting is not just a shape or how a person looks, but how we are eating and the activity that we are involved in everyday. In schools all around the world obesity is growing due to poor nutrition and a lack of physical activity. But, not only is it showing in schools, it’s showing everywhere we look. So many people are affected by it. Not only the ones who are obese but when they have babies, it can be passed down to their young. America, and even the whole world has been dealing with obesity for a very long time. It has grown and grown and in the 1980’s obesity was first recognized as an epidemic because of all of the people it started affecting. Only recently …show more content…
There are many things that we can do to at least make the percentage go down. There are many reasons why America is still gaining. For one, people find it hard to follow through on diets. Dieting is one of the ways to lose fat. Many who are obese try this, but do not follow through with it because they find themselves unsatisfied if they do not see immediate results. Secondly, people use others who want to get fit by using weight loss pills to get rich. Many barely, or don’t help at all. They just use it to make money. Third of all, there are surgeries such as liposuctions that they take the fat out surgically. But operations like this can cost thousands of dollars. Without obesity numbers going down, we are putting ourselves in dangerous