...STRIKE MASTA ICE This is the chronicle of my overweight cousin named Sir Fay Jai Gao. He was a sir who was addicted to food, gluttony was his greatest sin. When I have finally arrived at his kingdom, I've noticed how much he likes to aggrandize his fridge with rations that's more than enough for eight starving men. I insisted that he lay off the calories, however he infers that he needs the bloody nutrients. I tried to remonstrate my position by trying to educate him. His manner was erudite but he acts extraordinary sleazy which contradicts with his reasoning. By mid-afternoon, the aura in the skies was delightful, as we set out to joust to the death. The peasants around the court was affable as we began our seemingly friendly game. During the middle of our duel, my cousin pleaded to stop as he was growing hungry as the Queen did, during her pregnancy. As the kind champ that I was, I said “good golly, sir are you mad!?” He laughed, tumbled on all fours, and right into the Renaissance Cafe! I pursuit him on my faithful steed, hoping to avoid a cause of an uproar of any sort, and as well as to purchase my cup of tea along with some exquisite buttered crackers. As I stepped into the tavern, I witness the most horrific and grotesque image in front of my very eyes. What was in my cousin's arms could scar hundreds of unborn infants. It was as seems to be a contraband of snacks and sweets, carried by robbers from a bank. I halt him with each step he took, and explained how...
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...REAL LIFE! I will be sharing three main topics about obesity in America: How many people in America are obese, What is the percentage of obesity in America, and How many children are obese in America. If we don't shape up as a nation, our world will be full of misery and death. I hope you take some thought about the next thing you eat and take away from it. What is the percentage of obesity in America 2016? More than two-thirds (68.8 percent) of adults are considered to be overweight or obese. More than one-third (35.7 percent) of adults are considered to be obese. More than 1 in 20 (6.3 percent) have extreme obesity. Almost 3 in 4 men (74 percent) are...
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...Stanford University reported in The American Journal of Medicine suggests the rise in obesity in the US is likely due to increased sedentary lifestyles across the nation, and not eating too many calories” (Paddock, 2014, para 1). Although this health issue has received a lot of attention in the last couple of decades, the rate of obesity still continues to be high. According to the CDC, in 2011–2012, the prevalence of obesity in the U.S. has continued to increase significantly in the past 20 years; 36% of adults and 17% of children and teenagers are currently overweight. Another 17% of children and teenagers are obese (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2010). The terms ‘overweight’ and ‘obese’ are determined by ‘body mass index’ or BMI. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a number determined from a person's weight and height. For an adult, a BMI from 18.5-24.9 is considered normal, a BMI between 25-29.9 is considered overweight, and a BMI greater than 30 is considered obese (CDC, 2011). This paper discusses the Medical News Today article, the topic of obesity, and how it is related to Healthy People 2020. While I agree with the Medical News Article that a lack of exercise is a cause of obesity, I disagree that it is the sole cause. Increasing obesity in the U.S. is not in agreement with the objectives of the nationwide program ‘Healthy People 2020.’ This health prevention program was implemented by the federal government in 2010. The goals of Healthy People 2020 are: 1) Attain...
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...Obesity Obesity is a disease that is becoming increasingly common around the world. It is a serious medical condition that can lead to many medical issues. It is no question that America’s obesity rates are among the highest in the world. More than two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese (Ogden 2014). Obesity is on the rise among people of all ages, gender and ethnic background. The causes of obesity range from many different factors and all of them contribute to this alarming situation. Americans’ obesity has rapidly increased because of lack of physical exercise, an increase in high fat and sugary food intake, and genetic factors. Physical inactivity occurs when a person does not exercise on a daily basis. An examination of national health survey records shows Americans are exercising less, which could be driving the rising obesity rates (Bach 2014). Most people hardly exercise which is not a favorable circumstance. The percentage of women reporting no physical activity jumped from 19 percent to 52 percent between 1988 and 2010; the percentage of inactive men rose from 11 percent to 43 percent over the same period. Obesity also increased, climbing from 25 to 35 percent in women and from 20 to 35 percent in men (Bach 2014). Exercise is effective in weight loss, but most people do not accept the advantage of this preventive approach. Physical activity is rather excluded from our daily lifestyle. An excuse to not exercise is that working out is too time consuming...
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...Two thirds of american adults are currently overweight. That’s millions and millions of people who are at a greater risk of health effects such as heart disease or type 2 diabetes. Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death killing over 500,000 people in one year. There is obviously something that has to be done about America’s problem with overweight or obese conditions. Dieting and exercise can be hard for many people who are busy or just to lazy; this is where diet pills come in. Could they be the perfect solution for America’s weight problem? Pills and medication for dieting are fairly new. In the 1950’s and 60’s, people took pills to reduce appetite such as amphetamines. These worked fairly well because why eat if you aren't hungry? More drugs used until about the mid-1990’s were fenphen and dexfenfluramine. These drugs helped people struggling with weight shed the pounds easier and worked well for most people. The down side was that sometimes these drugs caused paranoia (amphetamines) or heart valve disease (fenphen and dexfenfluramine). Most weight-loss drugs work by altering metabolism, changing appetites of the user, or, just...
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...there and this is an important issue. Of course nobody believes that being overweight is a good thing, but the problem is being largely ignored. As Zig Ziglar once said “the first step in solving a problem is to admit that it does exist.” In 1990, 56% percent of overweight americans were working to lose weight, today only 49%. This number is only going to get lower if we don't address this issue. Some would say that it doesn´t matter that we´re becoming overweight, they'd disingenuously tell you that you can be healthy at an size and that obesity is completely innocuous, but this logic is unscientific and illogical. Obese people are at a much greater risk of having type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, strokes, certain types of cancer, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, fatty liver disease, kidney disease, and pregnancy problems. With risk like these how can one be healthy? ¨Well you´re just fatphobic,¨ a fat activist may tell you, but the goal is not to demonize and shame people but instead to educate and motivate people....
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...Obesity Today Page 1 Ryan Psych-106-016RN 4 February 2015 Unit 1 Obesity Today Obesity Today Page 3 In the society that we live in today obesity has become one of the most detrimental things we have dealt with and continue to deal with in the twenty-first century. There are many contributing factors to produce overweight individuals. The most common are that we as Americans don’t get enough sleep and that most of us live a sedentary lifestyle. For many people to get away from these things is difficult. Their jobs entail sitting at a computer all day and sometimes there just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to get everything done. These are only two of the more prominent causes of obesity. In 2011-2012 about 32 percent of adults 20 years and older were obese. At the same time about 17 percent of children aged 2 through 19 were obese. (Ogden, Caroll, Kit, Flegal, 2014 ) This is proof that obesity isn’t just effecting the adults of America it is also effecting the youth and future of this country. The first problem beyond the obesity is the lack of sleep which coincides. Without adequate sleep the hunger-related hormones leptin and ghrelin are disrupted. (Hockenbury, Hockenbury, pg. 328 2012) When sleep...
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...Dear Prime Minister I am writing this letter on behalf of all the pupils in the UK. After reading what I have to say you will hopefully realize that something must be done. In the last decade. The number of students who are obese or overweight has nearly doubled. This is a HUGE problem that can give some health issues like Diabetes 2, Heart diseases and much more, but overweight and obesity can also have negative effects on their education and social life, mainly because they lack energy and therefore lose focus. Health should not be a factor in receiving a higher education. About 31% of children between two and fifteen are overweight, and 34% of them are obese. They’re not only hurting themselves but if the numbers are correct and they have a lower chance of getting a higher education, they could be hurting our future. What can we do about the problem? There are of cause many ways to tackle this problem like, changing the food cutler sat the schools in the UK. We can also make some more activities and sports at the school, so the c children can get some inspiration to the different sports. We could do a third thing and it is to show the pupils how obesity an overweight can have a negative effect on their social life and be the reasons for other diseases. It will be expensive to change the food coulter, and make some activities, as football and lectures about obesity and how dangerous it can be. However, if we don’t do something about it, we will in some years have...
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...Heavy-Weight “Champions” “Being unhealthy is ok, and we should all accept it.” No sane person that has any knowledge of the human body would say this, right? Well, the “Fat Acceptance” movement is basically screaming that. Being overweight is not healthy or promoting body positivity, and should not be something that is praised. Obesity, Mary Thomas, being overweight is not healthy. When someone consumes more calories than they use, the body stores it as fat. 61% of Americans are overweight and 20% are obese. “Most doctors would not dispute the health dangers of obesity (though fat activists might).” (Thomas 3) Humans have adjusted to a “feast or famine” lifestyle that makes us gorge even when we don’t need to. Obesity will likely continue...
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...30, 2008 Overweight & Obesity Attention Step I. Overweight and obesity may soon cause as much preventable disease and death as cigarette smoking. II. Right now, about 300,000 U.S. deaths per year are because of obesity and overweight. Cigarette smoking is compared at more than 400,000 deaths per year. III. The total direct and indirect costs because of overweight and obesity were $117 billion in the year 2000. Need Step I. Overweight and obesity in the United States is a major public health problem. In 20 years, obesity has doubled in adults and overweight has tripled in children and adolescents. Right now, about 119 million, or 64.5%, of adults in the United States are either overweight or obese and it’s not getting any better. II. Being overweight or obese increases the risk of many diseases and health conditions, including the following: • Hypertension (high blood pressure) • Osteoarthritis (a degeneration of cartilage and its underlying bone within a joint) • Dyslipidemia (for example, high total cholesterol or high levels of triglycerides) • Type 2 diabetes • Coronary heart disease • Stroke • Gallbladder disease • Sleep apnea and respiratory problems • Some cancers (endometrial, breast, and colon) • Reproductive complications III. Costs are involved directly and indirectly with overweight and obesity...
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...found that employees with high stress levels who maintained a high level of physical activity experienced increased loss of productivity. In contrast, for workers with relatively low stress levels, physical activity had less effect on productivity. Employees with higher body mass indexes exhibited less productivity regardless of other factors. Putting Exercise Over Work The study authors, led by Jeffrey J. VanWormer, Ph.D., of Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, pointed out that worksite wellness programs that improve employee health generally lead to increased productivity. But the study provides new insights into how stress affects productivity, particularly in combination with exercise and other lifestyle factors. For example, overweight, highly stressed employees who exercised 7 hours per week lost an estimated 11 percent of productivity. Workers with low stress levels who exercised, meanwhile, lost only 2 percent of productivity. The results suggest that, when stress levels are high, increased physical activity is linked to decreased productivity. “This may indicate that some individuals essentially cope with high levels of stress by exercising more and working less,” the authors concluded. They therefore called stress management “at least as economically relevant” to promoting worker health and productivity as compared to more traditional lifestyle factors. The study appeared in the October Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the official publication...
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...sessions of ten minutes each, is almost as effective as exercise steadily during the same time and is easier to adapt to the pace of life today. For those who don't like or making it impossible to do exercise in a planned way, the fact to avoid or reduce the time spent in sedentary activities can be equally beneficial. For example, the simple fact of stand for one hour a day instead of sitting down to watch TV consumes the equivalent of 1-2 kg of fat per year. Obese people should choose carefully the type of exercise they are going to perform in order to avoid any injury to the joints caused by the practice of intense activities in which they have to support their own weight. Swimming and biking are two good options for people who are overweight. A good nutrition and fitness increases life expectancy and the quality of life. It has been discovered that the regular practice of some kind of exercise prolongs our lives (to reduce the risk of contracting diseases) and enhances our quality of life, preserving the mental health and increasing the flexibility and...
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...There are many causes of obesity, especially in America, many of which can be prevented. Throughout recent decades, the rise of an inactive lifestyle has driven the number of obese individuals in the United States to a staggering 78.6 million. Numerous Americans are unfortunately not physically active. One purpose behind this is that a copious amount of individuals invest hours watching television and doing work, schoolwork, and social media on their computers and cell phones. This problem has gotten to he point where over 2 hours a day of general television viewing time has been connected to obesity and overweight. In addition, other reasons behind not being active include: depending on vehicles and automated transportation as a means to get...
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...Ontario doctors are seeing an increasing number of patients of all ages whose obesity is harming their health, or will likely do so in the future. About 15 per cent of women and 17 per cent of men are considered obese, based on their self-reported height and weight. However, when researchers actually measured and weighed Canadians, they found that more than 1 in 4 adults - 25.4 per cent - were actually obese. Obesity can lead to diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart disease, and costs Ontario’s health care system $4.5 billion. An Ontario-specific study suggests that obesity in Ontario may be worse than the national average. A recent study by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) concluded that over 70% of adults in Ontario are overweight or obese. The researchers found that when it comes to how Canadians are eating, 22% of the total calories consumed by adults and 25% of the total calories consumed by...
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...Rhetorical Analysis: How to Keep Fit Nowadays the problem of obesity might be one of the hugest ones of modern society. It seems to me that a lot of people suffer from being overweight and just accept the problem when they have to solve it and resist it. It has to be mentioned that the potential audience of the chosen article under analysis might be people from school age till the age of 120, and more. It does not matter how old are you for this problem is able to touch anybody. There are several rhetorical concepts used in this article: logos, pathos and ethos. Logos is suggested to be responsible for reasoning and might be represented by a logical chain or flow of sentences. The effect of logos on the audience might sometimes be called the argument’s logical appeal. Pathos is another concept that refers to readers emotions by its appeal. However, pathos has an aim not only to evoke certain emotion, but to identify the point of view of the author. The aim of pathos is to provoke the reader to commit some actions. The last but not least concept is ethos is concerning the credibility. The aim of ethos is to convince the reader by creating the atmosphere of...
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