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    reaction to people becoming obese in the country it was a way that people were going to fight back on obesity. The reason why Obesity is a major problem in our society is that more than 30 percent of our population today is obese. This is a major problem in our community alone in the United States of America with a population of 323.1 million people about 96,930,000 of them are overweight or obese. Obesity is when you have become overweight from food like,”High-calorie,good-tasting, and inexpensive foods

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    Isacar Duarte 1 Professor Nichols 11/11/15 Obesity In The United States The United States has never seen such levels of obesity before, this epidemic is getting worse every year and the health complications associated with obesity can lead to the leading causes of death in America, heart disease and cancer. Obesity has been growing steadily since 1960, but in the late 80 's obesity levels started to rise like never before. Today six out of ten people are overweight, about 69% and more than one third

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    Review of Literature Obesity and Diabetes Obesity in the United States has more than doubled over the past four decades. Prevalence of obesity cause many other disease such as diabetes and heart issues. Obesity can be described as a health condition of a person or people of a population that have excess body fat. Diabetes is a disease related to high level of blood sugar in the blood. Obesity and diabetes are among disease that have direct relationship with each other. As obesity increase in a population

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    Food companies had made an impact in obesity. Obesity is a major issue in America. Food companies will trick people into over eating because of the taste and what they will say about there product. With being obese also comes with health problems. Michael Moss uses logos and pathos to inform readers that more than half of Americans are considered obese. Michael Moss uses pathos to tell readers why food companies are to blame for the obesity in America. He says, “People bought what they liked, and

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    Gagnon, M., & Stephens, M. B. (2015). Obesity and National Defense: Will America Be Too Heavy to Fight?. Military Medicine, 180(4), 464-467. doi:10.7205/MILMED-D-14- 00328. The authors explore a topic that has been of intense interest in the United States for several years. Rising rates of obesity have led some to question whether or not America will be able to readily sustain a fit fighting force into the future. Childhood obesity rates have steadily increased for the past 30 years. Recently

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    Obesity is a common problem in America that continues to increase throughout the years. It is a problem because of the life threatening side effects that are posed to a lot of individuals. A lot of blame is placed on the laziness of the modern times. People are getting lazy and don’t go outside or have any form of exercise anymore. Meanwhile, there are fast food chains catering to these people, continuing to increase everywhere people go. It is common knowledge that fast food is not healthy. Unhealthy

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    Who Can We Blame?

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    Who 's to Blame? Have you been a victim of the so called “ fast food obesity outbreak”? You 're not the only one. In today 's society this so called “fast food induced obesity” is a huge controversy concerning many countries today in time. The common culprits of the obesity issue is fast food, school lunch, and unhealthy food people consume at home. Who can we trust? Well many people believe that the consumer should not be responsible for their actions when it comes to consuming fast food, which

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    Sugar In American Diet The American diet is based mostly in processed food which contains enormous amount of sugar. The excessive consumption of sugar can cause diseases such as obesity, heart diseases, alzheimer, liver diseases, diabetes and others. One of the problems with the consumption of sugar is that people get sick progressively without the knowledge that it is caused by sugar. In addition, sugar is an addictive food and life without it is almost impossible. As a result, processed foods

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    with obesity. It is a very controversial subject to discuss, but is it something that needs to be laid out on the line. Nowadays, it’s easier to grab obesogenic foods because of the fast food restaurants that are ubiquitous than to eat a nutritious meal. If a stop is not being made rapidly than it will continue to get worse. The trend of obesity has been steadily increasing in both children and adults despite a few public health efforts to improve nutrition and physical activity. The obesity epidemic

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    The National Child Obesity Epidemic Essay

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    years, childhood obesity has more than tripled. The pervasiveness of obesity has increased from 6.5% in 1980 to 20% in 2014 among children aged 6 to 11. The prevalence of obesity among adolescents aged 12 to 19 increased from 5.0% to 18.1% during the same 30-year period. With that said, America is experiencing a very serious health issue concerning its youth. Obesity results from an imbalance involving excessive calorie consumption and/or inadequate physical activity. In addition, obesity is mediated

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