Communications
Informative Speech
Obesity In America
Obesity can be an issue for any age group in America, adults, adolescents and children. The obesity rate in the last 30 years has more than tripled. It is a critical issue to be addressed because the statistics show over the years; the amount of people suffering from this has only increased dramatically and will continue to do so if something isn’t being done about it. It’s not good for anyone to be overweight; it makes living harder and is also fatal. Being healthy and having a correct weight size will make you physically and emotionally happy and enable you to perform daily task without any problems and less health issues in your futures.
It’s easy to become overweight in America, some people are naturally genetically obese and others have problems controlling their eating habits. Fast food restaurants also don’t help, they make them easy accessible and the logo well known to kids and adults and more affordable as time goes on. Americans spend a lot of their free time doing sedentary activities such as watching TV, playing video games and using the computer etc. This is an issue a lot of people face in their everyday lives.
Constantly busy parents don’t have time to watch what their kids eat or never around enough to prepare home cooked meals every day. This is why fast food restaurants are more convenient for these groups of people. Parents do not think about the calories they are feeding their kids, they do not realize how greasy and fatty fast foods are and the health issues they cause later on in their child’s life. Most children usually prefer to eat out rather than eat at home. Another huge issue to pay attention to and absolutely avoid doing is eating at night, right before going to bed. There is no time for your body’s metabolism to work off the calories and your stomach to digest the food so it all just turns into fat. “Mice that were fed a high-fat diet