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Furthermore, as we can see, there are many obvious ways to define obesity. Although, it seems as if, the obvious facts and health risks are being misunderstood!
Additionally, no single cause can explain all cases of obesity. Ultimately, it could result from our societal norms. There are also ways to calculate measures of weight by proportion to height that include relative weight, body mass index called BMI (measurement of overweight and obesity that is calculated using height and weight) (Powers 39). While researching obesity, the FDA Consumer found that most parents do not even think about their children to be overweight or obese. This conclusion was drawn from a study of over 1,400 parents of children who were participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in New York State. The examiners established that ¡§68 percent of parents of childre
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„X Health insurance providers rarely pay for treatment of obesity despite its serious health. Greg Critser, author of Fat Land speaks of ¡§Poverty, Class,¡¨ and ¡§Income¡¨ and how these factors may be correlated in the obesity epidemic (117). Later, Dalton speaks of American families having an intolerably unstable diet and immobile way of life and how this single-handedly causes unhealthy adolescent size (35-60). Although, as Americans, the reality of the problem of obesity, in fact, may not be thought of as that serious! Ultimately, there are many factors interrelated.
„X Obesity increases one¡¦s risk of developing conditions such as high blood pressure (type2), heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, and cancer of the breast.
Meanwhile, during the FDA Consumer article, the examiners found that ¡§The prevalence of child hood obesity was more than twice as high as the national rate in the 1970s¡¨ and ¡§Increasing rates of child obesity have been noted before, but these rates are even higher now¡¨ reported from the lead researcher, Barbara A. Atrens, author of Don¡¦t Diet, believes that overweight adults and children are not condemned to an unhealthy life even if they are genetically challenged(146). (Finally A Cure for Obesity)
Thus, the psychological, societal, and physical risks implicated are most
definitely involved and are dreadfully serious.
The book Our Overweight Children, written by Sharon Dalton, speaks of the dreadful health-related difficulties in children. ¡§Obesity,¡¨ according to the World Wide Web site for the American Obesity Association, ¡§is a disease that affects nearly one-third of the adult American population.
In contrast, Dalton goes on to explain, ¡§ children are born with certain hereditary factors that increase their risk for obesity, so too they inherit a demographic profile that can and often does put them at a higher risk for poor nutrition and excessive weight gain¡¨(60). ¡¨ Perhaps, the most alarming obesity related disease among children, according to Dalton, are type 2 diabetes-formerly known as ¡§adult onset diabetes,¡¨ heart disease and hypertension, and breathing difficulties which can be fatal.
Consequently, there are many cultural, scientifically, psychological, societal, and physical aspects and risks involved in such a serious disease.
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