Exercise Can Prevent Obesity

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Approximately 35.1% of adults are considered obese in the United States (University of Maryland). This strikingly large percentage of the population forcefully indicates that obesity is not an issue that one can turn a blind eye to. In fact experts at the University of Maryland Medical Center say, “…more than half of American adults are likely to be obese by 2030,” (University of Maryland). It is a shocking reality that Americans must recognize as a serious health concern before obesity consumes the entire population. A bright side to this sad and unfortunate disease is that it is “curable”. Obesity is measured by Body Mass Index (BMI), which determines the percentage of fat on ones body. To be classified as obese the percentage of fat must be 30 or higher (Women’s Health). However, no matter how high someone’s BMI climbs, healthy eating and exercise can progressively lower the BMI. Everyone needs to eat, and switching a diet around to less appetizing foods is a feat in itself, however the word exercise holds an intimidating challenge over most individual’s heads. The frivolous and over indulgent eating habits tied with the lack of any sort of exercise or activity, exhibited by most obese people, makes it even more difficult to entertain the idea of exercising again. Unfortunately for them, exercise can not be disregarded. There are numerous ways in which exercises are beneficial to the life, mind, and body; and it is these improvements that make it irrefutably evident that increased exercise can help reduce obesity and its negative side effects in the United States.

Exercise first targets the body by burning calories, the most basic and almost ancient way in which people use exercise to promote weight loss and thereby reduce ob...

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