Obesity in America There has been a dramatic increase of overweight and obese individuals in the last decade. In the Americas, 62% of people are overweight and over a quarter are obese! Basically meaning that the average person in the Americas is overweight. Compared to the world the Americas tip the scales higher than any other region by a large margin. Only 10% of adults in the entire world are obese, less than half of what the Americas has to deal with. There are a very large amount of things that can be considered a cause and effect of this dramatic increase. Some of the largest causes for this recent weight gain are simply eating too much without exercise, bad or misleading environments, and also genetics can play a role in being overweight. There are many consequences from being overweight. The people of the world are literally eating themselves to death because of the health risks they give themselves. These health risks make it so America spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to fight it. To add to that overweight people have a much higher chance of being less …show more content…
But that is not entirely true. Many athletes, more specifically runners or swimmers, who burn high amounts of calories everyday eat just as much if not more than your average overweight person. How does this make any sense at all? One is “skinny” and the other is “fat” but they eat the same amount. The reason for this is actually quite simple. The athletes burn off all the calories they take in, where as the overweight people most likely do not burn off the calories hardly at all. This eating habit of not burning off the calories you take in is called an energy imbalance. The biggest reason for obesity is because of this energy imbalance. There are many things that cause someone to have an energy imbalance and a big culprit for this is their environment or