The Effects of Obesity in America

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Western civilization has an issue that needs to be resolved immediately. People take for granted the ecology of their own body mutilating it beyond recognition and converting it to the shapeless mass. World Health International reported, in “2008, more than 1.4 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight…over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese.” As of today, people in shape are in the lower percentile while obesity takes up most of our population. Obesity has already become an epidemic in the country spreading all over the states. The reasons for such way of things are multiple; it is difficult to blame people’s laziness as the single factor triggering the increase of obesity. By examining the effects of obesity, it can be concluded to be a huge problem in today’s society.
It all starts with the personal attitude of each individual towards his or her body image, nutrition plan, or physical activity. On the other scales there is the group of people blaming mass media for creating the image of a person with standardized body proportions unachievable for a random person. Despite the media’s provocative campaign promoting leanness and sportiness, it seems like the citizens do not respond to this efforts. It is important to admit that obesity is not just the force that ruins the body, it destructs the whole organism. Obesity not just alters the functioning of organs, it kills and it has already killed a lot of people. It is time for people to realize this problem and tackle it as soon as possible before it becomes too late. According to the data gathered by WHO, overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk for global deaths. Obesity related disorders take over 850 lives a day and over 300 thousand each ye...

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