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Obesity

Obesity:

Did you know obesity in America is growing everyday? Obesity is bad for everyone and could happen to anybody. Obesity does not just target gender, race, and or age. The rampaging amount of obese people in America is already 9 million and growing. Most people do not know that obesity is one of the most growing in America. Obesity causes several problems in people include people getting new diseases, new cnacers, and governemnt spending money to find out solutions. While some people want easy solutions, reaching a goal is harder than most people think.

Obesity first came reconginzed in the 1900's. Obesity is most common in the U.S. Nutritionists came concerned about how many people have had heart attacks at early ages; and has newly found cancers and diseases in people dealing with obestiy. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is shows that America's obesity rate went up 6 percent between 1998 and 1999. For the first time in American history, the American population has increased for obesity disorders such as: "cancers, coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, gallbladder disease, and osteoarthritis " (Food Industry is making Amercia fat). Coronary disease is a "condition that reduces blood flow through the arteries to the heart muscle" (Dictionary.com).

Some groups of people are trying to get a better, healthy America. For example, Bally Total Fitness has been a program fileld with excercise and eating the right amount of food everyday. And also there is another program called Jenny Craig. Jenny Craig is a program that gives you meal plans. Meal plans are foods that they tell you to eat everyday. Even though it is expensive, people pay to get where they need to be for a healthier life.

The problem of obesity is bad because some people don't know how fattening their foods are really are. And some people just eat because they have nothing else to do. People in America should know how much they can take in and...