Persuasive Speech: Obesity In Australia
Intro
Do you think that exercise, weight control and living healthy is hard? You are not alone! According to the Australian bureau of statistics over 14 million Australians are overweight and/or obese! What is so alarming is that if this rate of growth in obesity continues, there will be over 80% of Australians obese, including a third of our children. So why should you be bothered with your health? Obesity has now overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature death and is linked to diabetes, depression, stroke, cancer and heart conditions.
Foods today are not the same as they were 100 years ago and life today is more sedentary than ever! With the addition of many technologies in the last century, including cars, fast foods, computers, …show more content…
You would have seen these same women head downstairs after the class to sit and chat with their friends over coffee. Often one of the lovely ladies would bring a treat for the group and most of the woman would indulge in a small treat like biscuits or some low fat cake… Of course this was ok as they had just worked out for an hour. While this was happening, you would hear men in the weights area clanging weights together and using spaceship style machinery to build muscles and get …show more content…
But imagine on the other hand being able to do everything you can and be as successful as possible by simply being an action taker. A Just do 'it'er' a make it 'happen'er'. Well why not....You get one chance at this thing called life and in exercise we learn that we can take matters in our own hands and that 'if it's going to be it's up to me'. There's no-one to blame ...yet people blame sickness and poor health but they fail to adapt and grow. Instead they take pills or just give up and don't eat right for their body type and accept less than. WELL NOT
Do you think that exercise, weight control and living healthy is hard? You are not alone! According to the Australian bureau of statistics over 14 million Australians are overweight and/or obese! What is so alarming is that if this rate of growth in obesity continues, there will be over 80% of Australians obese, including a third of our children. So why should you be bothered with your health? Obesity has now overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature death and is linked to diabetes, depression, stroke, cancer and heart conditions.
Foods today are not the same as they were 100 years ago and life today is more sedentary than ever! With the addition of many technologies in the last century, including cars, fast foods, computers, …show more content…
You would have seen these same women head downstairs after the class to sit and chat with their friends over coffee. Often one of the lovely ladies would bring a treat for the group and most of the woman would indulge in a small treat like biscuits or some low fat cake… Of course this was ok as they had just worked out for an hour. While this was happening, you would hear men in the weights area clanging weights together and using spaceship style machinery to build muscles and get …show more content…
But imagine on the other hand being able to do everything you can and be as successful as possible by simply being an action taker. A Just do 'it'er' a make it 'happen'er'. Well why not....You get one chance at this thing called life and in exercise we learn that we can take matters in our own hands and that 'if it's going to be it's up to me'. There's no-one to blame ...yet people blame sickness and poor health but they fail to adapt and grow. Instead they take pills or just give up and don't eat right for their body type and accept less than. WELL NOT