Obesity in the U.S

Obesity in the U.S

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English 114
12/16/14
YOUR BODY IT’S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
Obesity is a common problem that affects so many people from all over the world. It causes a lot of serious health problems including Type 2 diabetes, High blood pressure, Heart disease, Stroke, Cancer, Breathing disorders, Osteoarthritis, also erectile dysfunction and sexual health issues. Obese people would also be discriminated and exposes to bullying, this would cause emotional problems such as depression. So obesity more than a common problem, is a really serious problem. According to 2007 statics from the World Health Organization (WHO) the United States has the highest percentage of obese people in the world. There are some factors for which people are obese, but so many Americans blame fast food restaurants for their obesity. This is because Americans loves fast food restaurants and why not if they are more quick than other restaurants, they are easy to get to and they are inexpensive. We would think that this is great and good reasons to eat in a fast food restaurant, but do we really know what are we ordering? Do we really know what are we buying? We are ordering junk food. We are buying obesity!
Here are five facts from the super-size me website that would impress you: 1. Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurants. 2 You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a super-sized coke, fry and Big Mac. 3) 60 percent of all Americans are either overweight or obese. 4) Diabetes will cut 17-27 years off your life. 5) Most nutritionist recommends not eating fast food more than once a month. Those facts are really scary. So many people don’t know about this. Even though fast food restaurants are not blame at all for which there are so many people with obesity around the world. It’s our decision to go in a fast food restaurant and order whatever we want and all we want. There are so many different fast food restaurants. we could order a salad instead of a...

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