With becoming a young adult comes responsibility, stability, and stress, causing possibilities of various defects, internally and externally. Although the main subject among that crowd has been obesity. Research has generated various possibilities on why this trend is slowly becoming an issue, and two of the countries that have been under this controversy are the United States of America and China. While the United States is a developed country, China remains developing, which says that trends could vary among both the countries. After much research, three articles have provided the statistical measures of obesity, variations of symptoms between both the countries, and what causes have lead obesity to be the huge trend in the United States
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The first source was the National Nutrition and Health survey, which portrayed results of 14.7% Chinese being overweight and about 2.6% being obese (Potts, 2006). These results were out of a population of 184 million overweight and 31 million obese from a total population of 1.3 billion in China (Potts, 2006). Despite a population this large, there is about one fourth of China’s population that falls into the category of overweight or obese. Besides the statistical measures, the World Health Organization (WHO) is what structured the BMI for the results and the outcome stated that out of 76,000 participants, 240,000 were Chinese adults who are the most overweight or obese (Potts, …show more content…
Not only has obesity caused different perspectives, but it has also brought changes in the environment. There are about 66% in the United States itself that face multiple forms of discrimination and prejudice because of their body and appearance, which is a highly comparable rate to racial discrimination (Heuer & Puhl, 2009). Being a part of the obese stereotype has caused many to feel insecure about themselves. The United States and China have a large population going through this negative effect, but it’s more prone in the United States largely due to its variance in distinct ethnic groups and cultures
The first source was the National Nutrition and Health survey, which portrayed results of 14.7% Chinese being overweight and about 2.6% being obese (Potts, 2006). These results were out of a population of 184 million overweight and 31 million obese from a total population of 1.3 billion in China (Potts, 2006). Despite a population this large, there is about one fourth of China’s population that falls into the category of overweight or obese. Besides the statistical measures, the World Health Organization (WHO) is what structured the BMI for the results and the outcome stated that out of 76,000 participants, 240,000 were Chinese adults who are the most overweight or obese (Potts, …show more content…
Not only has obesity caused different perspectives, but it has also brought changes in the environment. There are about 66% in the United States itself that face multiple forms of discrimination and prejudice because of their body and appearance, which is a highly comparable rate to racial discrimination (Heuer & Puhl, 2009). Being a part of the obese stereotype has caused many to feel insecure about themselves. The United States and China have a large population going through this negative effect, but it’s more prone in the United States largely due to its variance in distinct ethnic groups and cultures