Obesity in the United States Obesity has lately been quoted as a major health issue in recent decades. Industrialized countries like America, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK have increased obesity-rates, but the United States are among the highest in the world. Even though health issues in these countries – and especially America – have been a major issue, the rates are still continuing to grow. Statistics shows that one third of the American population is overweight and has led to 120.000 preventable deaths each year. Not only is this issue costing the American society an estimated 117 billion dollars, it is also slowly killing the poor civilized. But who can we blame? Over 45 million people in the United States live under poor circumstances …show more content…
One reason stems from the fact that many low-income neighborhoods lack safe, accessible places to exercise”. A big factor of this issue is also caused by the food deserts who lack access to large grocery stores who sells fresh products. An estimated total of 23.5 million people in America do not have the access to the supermarket within a mile of their home. As the targeted people get used to the unhealthy lifestyle, it is also known that American restaurants have improved sales with bigger meal sizes because of the growing urge to be satisfied. Not only is “health experts warning that the current generation of children may be the first in American history to have shorter life expectancy than their parents”, but food companies are producing enough foods for each American citizen to consume an overwhelming number – 3800 – calories everyday where as the average human only need 2350 calories in order to survive. Another big factor in obesity is the sedentary lifestyle which provides no irregular physical activities but rather activities such as playing videogames and watching television. This constant overeating added up with a sedentary lifestyle obviously results in obesity and risks of several sickness’ such as type 2. diabetes which is the most common sickness caused by the