Obesity in America Introduction to Obesity Causes and Effects of Obesity Treatment and Programs for Obesity Obesity Prevention: Conclusions and Recommendations Obesity Introduction to Obesity While it is common knowledge that many Americans are overweight, many people are surprised to hear that the number of people who are severely obese (at least 100 pounds overweight) has quadrupled since 1986, according to research (Gilles, 2003)
Dieting in adulthood decreases the fat-cell size but not the actual number of fat cells. There are many steps that can be taken to prevent or treat obesity (Hemmelgarn, 2004)
Sometimes a weight loss of just 5 to 10% can vastly improve health by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels. An increase in physical activity is one highly recommended form of treatment for obese people (Pories et al
2% prevalence in men and 35.5% in women (Flegal, Carroll, Ogden et al
Indeed focus should be given in the advertisements about concentrating on the ingredients of the food and beverages. Similarly as the cigarette makers also warn at the end of the advertisements that smoking is injurious to health (Mankiw, 2012, p
Direct health costs of obese patients increase significantly because obesity results in many serious illnesses and health conditions. These include; Type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, stroke, hypertension, cancer, osteoarthritis, infertility, gastro esophageal reflux disease, chronic headaches, cirrhosis of liver, asthma, sleep apnea (Pyle, 2006, p
" 1999) the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that children of ethnic minority groups are at the highest risk of any groups for developing cardiovascular disease due to obesity. (Davis et al
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(Moran 1999) "Increasing physical activity and practical nutritional knowledge through education in schools or through extracurricular programs should be an obvious first step that may require legislative action." (Johnsen 2003) if the child is already overweight, a comprehensive weight management program needs to be instated
The risk of continued obesity increases if at least one parent is overweight. (Moran 1999) the cost of obesity is shared by everyone in America, even those without excess weight
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In one study, male and female non-smokers who were obese at age 40 died 6 -- 7 years earlier than their non-obese equivalents. Obesity is associated with hypertension, dyslipidaemia and insulin resistance, the secular trends in these conditions should indicate the emerging disease impact of the obesity epidemic (Canoy and Buchan, 2007)
The epidemic of obesity really began in 1980 and in almost all countries has been rising inexorably ever since. It wasn't until 1997 that the World Health Organization accepted that this was a major public health problem and, even then, there was no accepted method for monitoring the problem in children (James, 2008)
This leads to another issue -- a question more than a problem -- with the proposed in-clinic sampling. In such a situation, are there appropriate controls necessary to ensure a representative sample? If there are essentially no exclusionary requirements, could less accurate or somehow flawed data get through and cause the results to become skewed, even in some small way? For example, one study shows that many clinics have a fairly high attrition rate, with nearly a third of participants in many programs leaving before completion (Honas et al
Sampling should not be left entirely up to chance, but should be controlled so as to be representative of the demographics represented in the larger population. Many demographic markers such as age, gender, and ethnicity have been linked to variances in obesity rates and outcomes, meaning that an ample sample of all represented demographics would be essential in a broad population-based study (Paeratakul et al
"Obesity is an epidemic and should be taken as seriously as any infectious disease epidemic." (Koop, C
Finding trucks to quickly deliver the produce to local programs remains a major problem. (Wetzstein, Cheryl
It has also been added that the morbidity and mortality rates in a few years may become higher as compared to the rates in the case of smokers. More than 80% of the children are predicted to be obese in their adulthoods as well (Ebbeling, Pawlak, and Ludwig, 2002, p
S. has now reached epidemic levels (Gortmaker, Peterson, Wiecha, Sobol, Dixit, Fox, and Laird, 1999, p
The researches have highlighted that greater the time children spend in watching TV, unhealthier the choices become in relation to the food being bought by the children. Thereby from here, it can be said that great roles are played by the television viewing on an increased rates of obesity seen in the American children (Hedley, Ogden, L