Obesity Persuasive Speech

How many calories do you eat per day? Do you lose them, burn them, or keep them? Or do you overeat? Average humans eat about 2000 calories a day, well, humans need and have to eat food in order to maintain some proteins for growth and nutrients to remain healthy, and calories in order to have energy to go through your daily routine and do work. The food we eat contains calories, and we have to burn these calories off, some days humans overeat and gain lots of calories, but if these calories don’t get burned by exercising or any other way, they are going to be stored into our bodies as fats, and if this happens on a daily basis there is a high chance of becoming obese. So, what does it mean to be obese, or what is obesity? Obesity means accumulating and having a very high percentage of fat in your body and this may result in negative health issues, and there are several and abundant reasons and factors that contribute and cause obesity to happen, such as, genetics, age, overeating, unhealthy lifestyle like not exercising, medication, and social issues like bullying. All of these cause people of different ages to become obese, and in 2017 it was shown that about 2 billion people worldwide are obese, and more than 1 in 3 adults consider to have obesity, and 1 in 6 children ages 2-19 are considered to have obesity. …show more content…
There are many health conditions that are linked into being obese and are completely dangerous, and need to be solved as soon as possible, as many obese people have a risk of having a heart disease or stroke because of being overweight, and having lots of fat in your body increase your blood pressure and make you have high cholesterol, also, there’s a risk of having a type 2 diabetes because your blood sugar levels aren’t controlled, moreover, there’s a risk of having cancer and gallbladder