In these days‚ obesity is a one of serious problems in the U.S. Obesity is disease that causes weakness of bone‚ adult illness or other diseases. The number of obese people is increasing ‚and Especially childhood obesity is becoming a serious issue with many health problems and social problems. People that suffer from obesity in their childhood will have a hard time to get rid of the fat in their life. It affects not only adults‚ but also children. It can be more serious social problems.. In the
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I. Introduction/Statement of the Problem The medical definition for obesity is having too much body fat. Many people tend to get obesity and being overweight mixed up. Being obese is different from being overweight in that being overweight is the status of weighing too much. This weight can come from many places‚ such as muscle‚ bone‚ fat‚ and/or body water. While technically they don’t mean the same thing‚ they both‚ however‚ mean that a person’s weight is greater than what is considered healthy
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Genes are codes for certain function that are found in DNA. The combination of genes is what makes each individual unique. MCADD is a genetic disorder‚ caused by a mutation or damage to the gene‚ ACADM‚ that codes for the enzyme‚ medium chain acyl CoA dehydrogenase. This results in the enzyme being absent or existing in minimal quantities. An enzyme increases the rate of a chemical reaction. Our body needs many enzymes in order to make the materials needed for our bodies to function and be healthy
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Causes of American Obesity : Obesity is a medical condition in human beings‚ in which the body overproduces body fats‚ to such an extent that the excess body fats which usually accumulates within the body‚ can lead to other health problems like increase in body size or the thickening of blood vessels‚ which may eventually lead to heart attack or high blood pressure. Obesity is a global health issue‚ but it’s mostly common in the west‚ due to the kind of life
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Final: Fighting Childhood Obesity Mary E. Mendes ENG/122 December 3‚ 2012 Ebony Gibson Final: Fighting Childhood Obesity Final Project Draft: Childhood Obesity Growing up as a child and adolescent in the United States is met with many obstacles including exposure to domestic violence‚ proper education‚ lack of proper nutrition and other socioeconomic issues within the family unit. One particular issue that has begun to grow is childhood obesity which can lead to many health and social
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Obesity is Not a Personal Problem As the obesity wave crashes over the United States‚ more Americans are paying out of pocket to flourish the $33 billion commercial diet industry (Spake 283). As American’s waistbands continue to expand‚ they immerse themselves in one of the largest‚ most scandalous consumer markets: the weight loss industry. Amanda Spake‚ author of “Rethinking Weight”‚ addresses the question as to who should cover the overall cost of weight loss programs. Spake challenges
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PREVENTING CHILDHOOD OBESITY Preventing Childhood obesity in school age Children Lakeisha L. Jones Nursing 531 September 6‚ 2010 Abstract Childhood obesity has become a worldwide epidemic. The obesity rate among children
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October 22‚ 2007 Video Games and Obesity In just two decades‚ the prevalence of obesity doubled for U.S. children ages 6 to 11‚ and tripled for American teenagers (Childhood Obesity). Obesity is an excessive accumulation of fat causing a person to become overweight. It is a serious and growing health problem‚ especially for kids. One major factor to the problem of children becoming obese is‚ video games. Video games have advanced dramatically over the years. From hitting a ball back
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A few decades ago‚ the debate of childhood obesity was not a matter to be discussed. Our parents and grandparents never questioned the weight of their children‚ their friends’ children or any other child they came into contact with. Their children ate healthy foods from the table and played outside all day. The subject of childhood weight has changed quit a bit since those days. With the introduction of fast foods‚ Playstation and Xbox games‚ our kids live sedentary lives and therefore
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In the United States today‚ obesity has become an enormous problem. In the last 3 decades‚ the number of people overweight has increased dramatically. A study done by the Centers of Disease Control showed that since 1980‚ one third of our adult population has become overweight. America is the richest but also the fattest nation in the world and our obese backsides are the butt of jokes in every other country (Klein 28). The 1980s were a time when Americans suddenly started going crazy over dieting
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