Obesity rate in America needs to be weighed down Good physical health is very important in everybody. It defines how well a person lives or how active they are. But what about the unhealthy side of America? America is easily within the top ten of most obese countries in the entire world. According to FitDay.com America is at number nine, but on health.usnews.com America is at number one. Nevertheless America is within those ranks. There are many factors for why Americans are overweight. Among them being access to healthy foods, what area you’re living in, as well as your lifestyle. Lifestyle can play a role in this, because it depends on how active you are, what amount of food you consume, as well as what types of food you eat There are exceptions of being …show more content…
What is the cause of this problem?. Every house has at least sugar. Sugar itself is high in calories and can cause life threatening health problems such as Diabetes if you abuse and over eat these kinds of products. According to activebeat.com, eating one hundred fifty calories worth of sugar increases the risk of type 2 diabetes by 1.1 percent. From Public Health Journal, sugar can actually increase depression by forty percent, mainly because with higher amounts of insulin production, that causes dopamine, a chemical that’s produced in the body to create that good feeling whether from food or sexual activities, levels to drop. Fast food plays another key in why obesity rate is so high in America. They are cheap and easily accessible literally almost anywhere. Go to any street or town and guaranteed a McDonalds will be the first thing that shows up. Fast food has higher calories, higher sodium level, a huge amount of saturated fat and trans fat and high in simple carbohydrates
What about Childhood obesity? Fast food are mainly targeting children, McDonald’s have happy meals and it comes in a colorful box and playful characters and it comes with a toy.
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