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Obesity

OBESITY

                  Obese people are responsible for their weight, and the time has come that we try to indoctrinate these people and do something about it. Obesity is on the rise, and is becoming an egregious national health concern. According to VanItallie and Simopoulos, obesity affects more than one-third of the population, and after cigarette smoking, is the second largest cause of death in the United States (1-2).   With obesity becoming more and more of an irrefutable problem each year, the American population is going to suffer from a catastrophic health emergency. Obesity is a heath condition where the subjects have an abnormally large amount of fat for their height. A person who has a Body Mass Index (BMI) of over 30 is classified obese by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines (Nancy Nugent 24). Obesity is believed to be caused by many different things including junk foods, genetics, and not getting enough physical activity. Whatever the symptoms, we truly need to try and help obliterate this inscrutable problem.
                  Obesity affects one-third of all Americans. However, the highest percentage of obese people can be found in the lower class (Kallen and Sussman 17). The people that live below the poverty level typically eat more cheaply, highly processed, high-calorie foods. Overweight and obesity result from an energy imbalance in the body. This involves eating too many calories and not getting enough physical activity. Americans have never had a less active lifestyle than they do now in the Twentieth Century. High calorie foods are more easily available today than ever before. Obesity is a widely spread nutritional disorder that can affect anybody at any age, majority of the reason being because there are so many fast food restaurants at just about every corner. With its low prices people are not going to be making the right decisions in what type of food they consume in their diet. Some examples of “the junk food” would be: microwave...