Obesity

Christopher Salter , December 6, 2007, Anthropology Presentation

Did you know "Between 1962 and 2000, the number of obese people in the US raised from 13% to an alarming 31%."2 And in the United States alone there are "58million overweight, 40million obese, and 3million morbidly obese."3 The Wikipedia definition for obesity is" a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and other mammals, is increased to a point where it is associated with certain health conditions or increased mortality."4 Obesity is a main issue in developed countries. With an increase of jobs that are totally sedentary adults are not moving around and getting any sort of exercise in the day. As well high schools are not getting students out and about to exercise during the day so students are going from sitting around for years and accepting it with their jobs when they get out of high school. With no exercise people are use to sitting and starting an exercise routine when they are older is very difficult because it is so new and different. To counter obesity we should try to educate the masses, build a reasonable workout, and provide cut taxes. With a number of people that suffer from obesity of about 1.1billion their needs to be a change. You don't need to have the government dictate what people should and should not eat. That would just be a waste of even more government resources. "Obesity cost the United States 12 percent of the national health care budget in the late 1990's"1 People make better decisions when they are informed. With all of the warnings that are on foods these days it is a wonder that people have not gotten the message yet that poor nutrition because eating anything that tastes good is a poor way to choose the foods you eat. Parents are the leading factor for how their children eat. If they are eating junk the likelihood is very high that the