Over eighty million people are overweight and the number of obese or overweight people is increasing drastically every year. There are many overwhelming factors that contribute to obesity. Some of the factors include poor diet, genetics and medical issues. Not only is obesity on the rise, it is the number one leader of heart attacks. But, what is obesity? According to the Obesity Society (2014), obesity is one of the most pervasive chronic diseases and is the leading cause in mortality morbidity, disability, and other health issues. By identifying the factors you maybe able to prevent obesity.
One of the factors stated was poor diet. The article “What Causes Overweight and Obesity?”(2011) the author says that Poor diet has a big impact on obesity such as a low income. People with low income are subjected to buying your income cheaper food. These foods are often loaded with high fat content or greasy , multiple chemical, high calorie foods and very little nutritionist value. Another …show more content…
The article {{meta.og.title}} (2013) The imitating factors are hereditary and environmental according to the research chair in obesity, obesity is a complex disease resulting form the interaction of hereditary and environmental factors. A lot of people are born chubby or overweight and that’s because the family genes are big. Also genes may affect on the amount of fat in a person’s body, for example children can copy their parents habit by eating a lot that leads to an overweight child. Furthermore genetics depends on the culture that people live in to be able to understand Asian people eat rice steamed food and are much healthier on the other hand we have American their food is greasy and always in big quantities and not healthy there fore u can see a big difference that American people are much heavier than Asians because of what they eat and the cultural they are in. in this case genetics plays a big role on