Obesity in the United States

scrolling down a website, a weight loss ad will magically appear. When walking through Walmart, a weight loss supplements poster will be at the end of the aisle. Everywhere Americans look there is a weight loss ad. The reason for this is because obesity in America is becoming an epidemic. Health problems in children and adults have been on the rise. It’s hard to deny that western culture isn’t to blame for the growing issue. In his essay, Being Weird: How Culture Shapes the Mind, Ethan Watters…

leading percentage rate in the United States is obesity. According to obesity.org, “Obesity is one of the most pervasive, chronic diseases in need of new strategies for medical treatment and prevention.” Obesity has taken a toll on the younger generation, the future of America: children and adolescents. From the easy access to fast food restaurants throughout the country to our former First Lady, Michelle Obama, who brought light to her solution to child’s obesity with her nationwide campaign,…

Obesity a growing issue in America Obesity is a serious health issue that is weighing down America. What is obesity? According to the CDC obesity is defined as excessive amount of body fat. More the one third of the U.S population is obese. The recent prevalence for obesity it that people are ingesting more calories and becoming less physically active. Obesity increases the risk of health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. Along with adult’s children are at a…

In the United States the food manufacturing system has changed dramatically. Big businesses have turned farms into factories risking the public health of the United States. With money as the only motive animals are pumped with hormones, plants are sprayed with pesticides, and food is genetically modified to sell. Modern farming is effecting human health on an imaginable scale. If the way the United States produces food doesn’t change obesity will continue to rise along with all other obesity…

Obesity is and has been an increasingly big problem in the United States. In this article, written by Alan Greenblatt, it talks about how obesity is a growing problem in the United States and how people are trying to control it. The thesis of this article is that obesity has become a huge problem that has began to threaten the well being of the people of the United States. Obesity is beginning to be comparable to tobacco as the leading cause of preventable deaths in America (Greenblatt 76).…

question if fast food restaurants are responsible for rising obesity rates. Fast food restaurants are partially responsible for the rise in obesity rates. The food that fast food restaurants serve is extremely unhealthy but easily accessible and cheap and this is what attracts people to consume large amounts of it. These large amounts of consumption of these foods play a large factor in why obesity rates are rising. Based on rising obesity rates and consumption patterns, there is a clear link…

in the quick serve (fast food) industry in the United States contributed to child obesity? Child obesity is increasing every year, in the moment we speak. Many children are teased because of their weight, and physical appearance in school. Other children get other diseases such as diabetes if their weight is obese for a long period of time. These problems all start with what a child eats. As stated in CBS’s article, Fast Food Linked To Child Obesity, author Jamie Holguin wrote that “nearly…

Robert L. Peralta claims that obesity tends to result from race, social class, gender, sexual orientation, education level, and socioeconomic status(SES). In "Thinking Sociologically about Sources of Obesity in the United States" he discusses certain issues such as unequal distribution of goods and resources, geographic availability- places of nutritious foods and unhealthy fast-food, factors: time, facilities, and equipment for exercise, also the availability and level of education as regards…

Sugary drinks can affect everyone in the world. Specifically in the United States, the government is trying to implement a tax on sugary drinks. Although the tax would be unnecessary and unethical, if there is going to be an unnecessary tax on sugary drinks then the revenue from the taxation should be used for rehabilitation and education to stop and prevent obesity and diabetes. Taxation would only be decent if the money was budgeted for the good and overall well being of people who are obese…

The effect of childhood obesity is becoming a major issue in today’s society. It is a growing epidemic trend in the United States as childhood obesity has doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years (“CDC”, n.d.). In addition, the Healthy People 2020 initiative identified obesity as a serious health issue and has a goal to decrease the number of children and adolescents who are obese. Unfortunately, the United States has not done much to meet this goal (Fryar,…