Obesity
Have you ever wondered what obesity is? What can obesity do to you and how can it impact your life?
Obesity is an excess of body fat of over 20%. Obesity is becoming a worldwide problem, because people are gaining moreand more weight. It is estimated that 1 and everyone 10 adults are obese. Worldwide, more than half of the people are overweight and one third are obese. Obesity isn’t just eating a bunch of fatty food and never working out. It’s more than that. Researchers have seen that obesity can be from not getting a good enough night sleep. Also has been seen that it can be from stress. Obviously obesity comes from over eating, but it’s what triggers someone to do so. You can find obesity in genetics and wherever you are. Deping on your gender can alter your ways of becoming obese.
Obesity is a problem that can end your life. If you get to a certain point in your life with too much fat in your body and lack of exercise, you can be at risk. Obesity can be fatal to your everyday life. Researchers show that if you are obese you pay more then 42% then the average American for health payments. Obesity is serious, and you can’t ignore the fact if you need help. Fats are good and no one can live without fat. Sometimes fats are bad and when you get too much of it is when you got to get help. Obesity isn’t impossible, there are ways out of everything.
This is a good example of a broad generalization of obesity and how it impacts or generation. I wish you would have expanded on more of the causes and how to prevent it. I chose to research the question “what is obesity?” I found that obesity is an excess amount of body fat that can be measure by a BMI, body mass index, over 30. Along with obesity, there is morbid obesity where the person is 100 or more pounds over a normal weight. There are several contributing factors to obesity such as age, gender, genetics, environmental factors, physical activity or lack of, illness, medication, and some psychological factors. All of these factors are good to know when thinking about obesity and how it could affect you now or in the future.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/what-is-obesity
The question that I answered is “What can obesity do to you and how can it impact your life?” Obesity cannot affect you physically but mentally too. When people are obese they mostly deal with self-esteem, anxiety and depression, because of what they look like. The physical effects are difficulties breathing, walking or running, sweating, and skin conditions. It also impacts your life by making you change your diet, you have to do more physical activity, medication, or surgery like gastric banding or gastric bypass. By having this surgery, it not only allows you to lose weight, but will help u feel full when eating smaller amounts of food.
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_advice/facts/obesity.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lh6SWUqWOc&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0004552/
All of your information is really interesting. It would be nice if you could expand on the steps toward obesity. Also, if you could explain how obesity can be fatal. It would give the readers some insight on what they should expect if they are obese. And it would give them insight on what its like to be obese and they don’t want to get there. I also think you should have more information on how obesity can lead to cancer. It is commonly linked to breast cancer for women and heart disease for men. Most of the time obesity can lead to Type 2 diabetes. That being said staying fit and healthy doesn’t mean you can’t get cancer it just minimizes the risk.This blog had very nice information but I think it could have been longer with an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
You have lots of good information on what obesity is and how people may become obese. Additional information that would be useful to the readers would include some information on how people can avoid becoming obese and steps they can take to lose weight. You could include the fact that age, gender, environmental and psychological factors, as well as medication all have impacts on weight gain.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/what-is-obesity