Have you ever wondered what’s the reasoning behind teen obesity? Most teens that are obese have their own reason behind it.The most common two reasons why teens are obese is because Genetics and Depression. These two reasons combined are about 50% the reasons why teens are obese. When teens are depressed they eat alot so thats what gain. However, being obese sometimes has nothing to do with your weight, sometimes people are overweight because there bones. Having thick bones are from genetics, thick bones add on weight so therefore people would be classified as overweight. Heres more reasons why genetics and depression plays such big roles in teen obesity. First reason you'll be informed more about will be genetics. When being obese by genetics teens are usually born overweight. If someone's family has high blood pressure through the family there's a big chance you'll have it too. Same thing goes with some obese people unfortunately some people are born obese families genetics. Some people as I mentioned before are declared obese just because they’re big doesn't mean their fat. The top two genetic reasons other than fat that makes you overweight are when they're born with big …show more content…
Depression can be taken a lot of ways but some people eat because they’re depressed. Usually teens are depressed because someone is bullying them or they lost a loved one. There's a million ways teens get depressed just because their body is growing and they feel insecure about themselves. Each teen takes a different way to handle their depression. The three top ways teens handle depression some teens might work out too take their anger or depression out, some teens eat like theres no tommorow because they feel like eating will get their depression off their mind, and worst case scenario they become suicidal. Therefor, teens that eat a lot to lose their depression is not a good thing to do but it also isn't the worst