While walking through the sweaty streets of the state fair, you are bound to see many obese children, and many of them with obese parents. In society today it is normal to see the average american family be overweight. With the fatty food options being cheaper, more time in school sitting down than being active, and the vulgar and unhealthy lunches at school kids these days are more immune to being fat. If the obesity keeps happening the lineage will begin to decline in existance length and humankind will just be a big ball of skin and fat lying on the couch. Obesity is an ongoing problem in our society today,the issue very prevalent in our new generation causing an ill fated society; to stop this epidemic the government must help raise awareness,
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Inferring the future is hard, but many people believe that obesity is a deadly disease lurking, waiting to take as many victims as possible. Researchers at the CDC states “1 out 3 children in the US are obese”(1). With these many kids obese the US has already seen a rise in the amount of kids who have type 2 diabetes directly linked from being obese. Researchers from the American Diabetes Association (2014) says “ If children are obese they increase their chances to 90% for getting type 2 diabetes”. By having our young generation obese the odds of type 2 diabetes is high and that can later turn into type 1 diabetes and cause fatal results, greatly affecting our …show more content…
Growing up many children look to their parents or any parental figure as a role model; though this often causes a problem if the figure shows unhealthy habits. Ferdman (2008) states that society is a constant cycle of obese parent and child, to break the cycle the parents must be the bigger person and set a good example on being healthy. The parents have mostly likely been overweight or obese their whole lives, making it harder for them to correct the issue. Even though many clinics are set up to just help obese kids or obese adults, what about having a family clinic for overweight or weight struggling families. By making the change as a family it is less scary and gives the child more assurance that they are not alone through this change in
Inferring the future is hard, but many people believe that obesity is a deadly disease lurking, waiting to take as many victims as possible. Researchers at the CDC states “1 out 3 children in the US are obese”(1). With these many kids obese the US has already seen a rise in the amount of kids who have type 2 diabetes directly linked from being obese. Researchers from the American Diabetes Association (2014) says “ If children are obese they increase their chances to 90% for getting type 2 diabetes”. By having our young generation obese the odds of type 2 diabetes is high and that can later turn into type 1 diabetes and cause fatal results, greatly affecting our …show more content…
Growing up many children look to their parents or any parental figure as a role model; though this often causes a problem if the figure shows unhealthy habits. Ferdman (2008) states that society is a constant cycle of obese parent and child, to break the cycle the parents must be the bigger person and set a good example on being healthy. The parents have mostly likely been overweight or obese their whole lives, making it harder for them to correct the issue. Even though many clinics are set up to just help obese kids or obese adults, what about having a family clinic for overweight or weight struggling families. By making the change as a family it is less scary and gives the child more assurance that they are not alone through this change in