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The Pros And Cons Of Sedentary Lifestyle

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Sedentary lifestyle engaging in smoking practices Sedentary lifestyle is dominating the world right now and that is because of technology, we are living in a world where we can get and do something in just one click. “A sedentary activity level describes someone who gets little to no exercise. If you spend a lot of time sitting at a desk or watching television, without working out regularly, you’re considered sedentary.” (Christensen, 2013) That is why people nowadays don’t engage in physical activities. Sir Piñero stated, “The common reasons why college students tend to have a sedentary lifestyle is because of laziness and lack of discipline.” People think that they can survive even without having a physically fit body. People think that we …show more content…

Sitting, like smoking, is very clearly bad for our health and the only way to minimize the risk is to limit the time we spend on our butts each day.” It says that they have the same effects on the body and some are irreversible but can be minimized, through physical activity most likely exercise. Smoking and sedentary lifestyle has a relation towards each other and there are many reasons why people smoke because of sedentary lifestyle. We did a research about this topic concerning the relationship of sedentary lifestyle and smoking. In this research paper we want to identify and describe the reasons why a person having a sedentary lifestyle engage in smoking practice, we chose the college dormers of Silliman university who smokes and has a sedentary lifestyle to be the respondents since we know that college life is one of the most challenging and busy chapter of each one’s book of life. Our thesis: Dormers with sedentary lifestyle engaged to smoking practices in Silliman University, Dumaguete …show more content…

Having a sedentary lifestyle is a factor why people become obese. Doing nothing except sitting, watching TV and playing games all day can lead to obesity. Energy imbalance: Too many calories inside the body and too few calories burned is the reason of people getting obese. The obese tends to suffer weight stigma or weight-based discrimination. Not only diseases like diabetes will come to them, also there are other consequences of being overweight; it leads to discrimination that is also a factor of anxiety and depression. According to the Obesity Society (n.d.), Weight stigma occurs through events like an obese person trying to get a job but the company hiring, has a mindset on obese people to be sloppy, lazy, poor role models, disagreeable and less competent. People are stereotyping the obese people negatively. Overweight teens are more likely to be socially deprived, and weight-based teasing can lead in having low self-esteem and depression, according to some research that was

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“Why Shame Won’t Stop Obesity” Obesity is a huge social issue in America, and the reputation of fast food and junk food doesn’t make it any better. More Americans are developing critical health issues due to obesity. In “Why Shame Won’t Stop Obesity” by Dhruv Khullar, Khullar states that shaming obesity will not stop it. We must recognize that we have created a food environment, but there is much we can do and should do to reverse that trend. I have to agree with Khullar and the statements that he made in the article about shaming obesity, why there is so much obesity, and steps to reverse the trend of obesity.

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The study was conducted in Oxford, England over the course of 20 years, ending in the year 1969. In this period of time, the pair examined 34,440 men, their smoking habits, and later the

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Behavior and environment has a big role to play in obesity too. Studies show that less than 50% of adults in America get a healthy amount physical activity. This means that grownups cannot get enough calories out and end up gaining weight because they choose not to live healthy or they have a disease. Also modern technology influences obesity because it makes labor easier. Computers and televisions keep Americans on the couch all day.

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The government may have cut down on the obesity mass around the world, but some people go home hungry because they only get provided the school lunches. But, some people are starving because the low cut down. Some people would rather be fat than to be starved to death. People need their food to fulfill their daily body needs such as calorie count above 1,500. Also, a good source is a protein to keep their body running.

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Francine Prose explains this in his article, “The Wages of Sin” where she states how to control their weight, what obesity is, and how others view obese people.

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These are just some of the things that cause people to become obese. Now America is one of the most obese countries in the world. Mainly from people not getting enough exercise. Exercise is a big point why Americans get obese because they sit there and do nothing. On top of

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The contribution of each of these factors has been studied, and although genes play an important role in the regulation of body weight, the World Health Organization Consultation on Obesity concluded that behavioral and environmental factors ( sedentary lifestyles with a mixture of too much energy intake) are primarily responsible for the dramatic increase in obesity during the past two decades.

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Also being obese can make you have anxiety and depression, according to psychcentral.com For an example, a new Australian study found that people that are overweight are more anxious and depressed. This is not good because say you have a big test coming up and you 're overweight you may not care about it because you 're depressed. So you will then not to good on that test, and maybe that was the test that can affect your future. Now you can’t get into a collage. What will

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It cause physical ,psychological , and social problems. This problem can effect on children's for the rest of their lives. Childhood obesity is one of the main reasons of adulthood obesity also earlier risk obesity-related disease in adulthood. Obesity is defined as the condition in which excess body fat accumulates to the point of causing adverse health effects. It is determined by the body mass index (BMI), a measure that corresponds to weight in length.

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It can cause certain cancers, heart problems and diabetes (World Health Organization, n.d.). The thing to know is that obesity is ranked second only to smoking as a preventable cause of death (Flegal, Williamson, Pamuk, &

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The effects of obesity on our society Obesity is a terrible thing to have in life. People often assume overweight is the same thing as obesity but that in entirely wrong. “The United States is already one of the most obese countries on this earth and is quickly rising ever so higher on the list” (American 1). Obesity negatively affects society by insurance cost, health, Quality of life. Obesity affects your everyday life in many ways even with the simple things like tying your shoes and standing up by yourself.

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