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MY
HEALTH
Cause
Of Obesity Epidemic
Posted:
Nov 2009
What
is the cause of obesity
epidemic? What are the side
effects of obesity epidemic?
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According
to the World Health
Organization, more than a
billion inhabitants of our
planet are overweight and
400 million suffer from
severe obesity. Two-thirds
of adult Americans now
overweight or suffer from
obesity. Health authorities
in the United States are
seeking the conference
dedicated to obesity
epidemic in
America.
New research shows that
obesity costs the United
States 147 billion dollars
per year, or 1400 dollars
more per year for the obese
person, than for a person of
normal weight. This was
shown by research done by
American Centers for Disease
Control. The costs are
affected by the price of the
drugs for diseases
associated with obesity such
as diabetes. The only way to
demonstrate real savings in
expenditures for health in
the future is to reduce
obesity and related health
problems.
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It
is not only alarming number of
Americans that exceed the
capacity of home scales, but the
speed at which this happens. The
obesity epidemics affects all racial and
ethnic groups, rich and poor
and, most dramatic, the American
children. Twenty percent of
children are obese. Considering that food
is everywhere, it is heavily
advertised, so weight gain is difficult to prevent.
If you move in the direction of
most of people in America, you'll
become overweight or obese. It
is not the result of genetic
changes. What is changing is the
environment.
The
increase rate of obesity is the
greatest cause of diabetes
epidemic. The average American's
daily intake is 250 calories
more than 20 years ago. Imagine,
0,5l of soft drink beverage has
250 calories. The growth rates
of obese people are the largest
single cause of national
epidemic of diabetes. To help in
the fight against obesity
crisis, public health experts
discussed the need of changing
habits: Promoting exercise and
healthy eating. Federal
assistance will be given to
local communities in order to
encourage shops to offer more
fresh goods in poor
neighborhoods and provide more
fruit and vegetables for school
meals. It is true that healthy
food is more expensive, since
high calorie and low nutrition
food cost less than fruits and
vegetables, which is difficult
to maintain a healthy diet. Also
considering that people use more
technology, they less travel.
Has
the time come to turn the wheel
around?
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