Physical Inactivity-Based Model

Obesity has been a well-known risk factor for a quiet a bit of diet related diseases which may include osteoarthritis, cardiovascular disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. It’s unfortunate, rural areas, racial, low-income, or even the ethnic minority populations who suffers disproportionate rates of obesity, followed by chronic diseases. As we all know physical inactivity is said to be one of the leading cause to preventable untimely mortality within its larger parts to its role in obesity and associated morbidities. Inactive lifestyles put most adults at risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, some cancers, osteoporosis, and psychological disorders. Physical activity can be effective at all phases of chronic disease management, …show more content…
However, the question remains of how the environment has such an impact on health behavior and why it is largely unexplored. Health promotion works through people within a targeted population, an explicit understanding of individual behavior is required to formulate and evaluate intervention strategies. Bringing in concepts from various fields, the use of an activity based modeling approach for understanding and predicting, from the bottom up, how individuals interact with their environment and each other in space and time, and how their behaviors aggregate to population level health …show more content…
Overweight and obesity strongly depend on behavioral issues. This is because weight gain results when energy consumption exceeds energy expenditure for a prolonged period. Williams stated, “Regular physical activity has many health benefits, but in spite of the benefits many Americans are not sufficiently active”, this may be due to deficiency in nutrition and physical activity behaviors which may be identified as key factors. Somehow people have gradually changed their eating habits and turned to more sedentary lifestyles. While interdependencies between the two behaviors may exist, several contextual factors seem to have contributed to the rise of overweight and obesity. The fast food industry has been able to flourish in our modern society driven by consumption, convenience and marketing. At the same time, technological changes, such as workplace automation and the dominance of the car for personal travel, have substantially reduced the physical activity that was naturally embedded in daily life. Many more of such factors have gradually changed the environment in which people live, work and