Obesity Increase Risk

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Obesity is a condition where a person has a high percentage of body fat (if you have between a 30% and 39.9% you are obese; and if it’s around 40% or above, you are severely obese) and this has a negative effect on their health. Some of this effects can be: breathing problems, increase of blood preassure that can produce heart issues...

Adulthood obesity

Causes of obesity are simple: if you consume more calories that you burn doing physical activity, then you'll gain weight.
The risks that obesity has aren’t so simple because it has a lot of genetic factors, socioeconomic factors, metabolic factors and lifestyle choices, and a lot of different things. Some diseases and medications can also cause weight to increase.
In men, obesity has tripled and in women, it has more than doubled.
The most obese men and women now live in China and in the USA.
Tibor Végh: "At the beach" | Creative Commons (Attribution)

Childhood obesity

Obesity increase affects children too. Since 1980, the childhood obesity rates (from  2 years old to 19) have tripled; with the rates of obese from 6 to 11 years old more than doubling (from 7% to 17.5%) and rates of obese teens (ages 12 to 19) quadrupling from 5% to 20.5%.
The causes of childhood obesity are the mostly same as in the adults.
Today, many children spend a lot time being inactive. For example, the average child spends approximately four hours each day watching television. As computers and video games become increasingly popular, the number of hours of inactivity has increased.
The children can stay a lot of hours inactive but they need some physical activities to burn all those calories they consume or they will gain weight.
Robin Corps, "Mr America | Robin Corps | Flickr" | Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike)

How to fight obesity

We can fight to obesity in different ways. We can , try to have a different diet less junk food (which is taking too much relevance in some people’s meals because it’s cheap, and easy to get. Also the big chains of restaurants of this kind of food make this )
We also can do physical exercise(two times a week at least) to burn most of the calories that we eat in the meals.

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Sources:

[1]NCS, ‘Obesity - NHS Choices’. [Online]. Available: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Obesity/Pages/Introduction.aspx. [Accessed: 13-Mar-2017].
[2]stanford health care, ‘Effects of Obesity | Stanford Health Care’. [Online]. Available: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/healthy-living/obesity/causes.html. [Accessed: 13-Mar-2017].
[3]The State of Obesity, ‘Obesity Rates & Trends Overview: The State of Obesity’. [Online]. Available: http://stateofobesity.org/obesity-rates-trends-overview/. [Accessed: 20-Mar-2017].
[image1]T. Végh, ‘File:At the beach - male abdominal obesity.JPG - Wikimedia Commons’. [Online]. Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:At_the_beach_-_male_abdominal_obesity.JPG. [Accessed: 05-Jun-2017].
[image2]R. Corps, ‘Mr America | Robin Corps | Flickr’. [Online]. Available: https://www.flickr.com/photos/robadob/88894048/in/photostream/. [Accessed: 05-Jun-2017].





 


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