Obesity Case - Are You Aware of the Foods That You Intake Every Meal?

Obesity

Are you aware of the foods that you intake every meal? How do you feel about your weight and your appearance? What do you see yourself when looking in the mirror? Are you skinny, perfect, fat or overweight? Obesity and overweight have in the last decade become a global problem. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) back in 2005, approximately 1.6 billion adults over the age of 15+ were overweight, at least 400 million adults were obese, and at least 20 million children under the age of five years were overweight. Experts believe if the current trends continue by 2015, approximately 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese (NewsMedical, 2012).Obesity is an excess proportion of total body fat. A person is considered obese when his/her weight is 20% or more above normal weight (n.a., 2012).Obesity is becoming overwhelmingly high in young adult, so it is relevant to know its nature, causes, and effects to an individual.

There are many reasons why obesity occurs in our present. The shocking rise of obesity during the last decades became an issue of great concern due to its rapid spread. As you can see, there are many big fat guys, who were considered as gluttonous people. They often eat oily, greasy, and unhealthy foods, which could make their height and weight physically imbalance. Nowadays, many of us were being tempted to eat sweet, delicious, delightful foods that have a pleasing taste on our tongue. Furthermore, we are all part of this temptation; however, it is also our choice, if we will junk and unhealthy meals instead of nutritious and healthy meals. Eating bad foods may cause us inequality between calories consumed and calories used by a person through physical activity. Also, being indolent is all about convenience, but convenience has a double trouble with our health. Many of them would always command other people to do their jobs and needs. As a result, obese man looks like as a globe, taking up half of the bed. His skin waves as he moved around; his sweat seems like waterfalls that always dripping out of his skin. His clothes were wet thoroughly due to the grease of oily and fatty foods. The smell of his sweat was enough to make people get away from him. Thus, to prevent obesity, we must have well balanced diet and eliminate our desire and temptation on the foods that we eat.

Obesity can be divided into five main factors: emotional problems, bad eating habit, lack of exercise, lack of sleep and lifestyle. First, emotional problems can sometimes be the reason on why people eat a lot to forget their problems or to relieve a feeling of emptiness (Verito, 2008). Next, bad eating can also arouse obesity. In that way, overweight people would not notice that they eat too much junk food which causes them to gain or to increase their appropriate weight. People usually spend more hours watching TV than doing exercises, thus they get tired

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