Infant obesity

Obesity in America


Obesity today is a widely spread nutritional disorder that can affect anybody at any age across North America, majority of the reason being because there are so many fastfood restaurants at just about every corner. With its low prices people are not going to be making the right decisions in what type of food they consume in their diet. Some examples of the junk foodwould be: Microwave dinners, snack foods like potato chips, which have high calories. It is not necessarily junk foods that make people obese and fat. Too many carbohydrates and foods with lots of starchin an individual’s diet can also cause them to gain undesired weight. It is not always someone’s dietary decision that makes him or her obese. Genetics play a monumental factor in a person’s weight.For example, if a child is born with two obese parents there is an 80 percent of a chance that the child can be born or become obese later in his or her life. Pregnancy can make the mother gain about20 pounds after giving birth. Another said cause of weight gain is when the energy intake is more then the energy outtake in the body. That is not always the case.

“According to recent reports,more than six in 10 adults are overweight or obese, and the number of overweight children is on the rise.” Is a quote taken from the McDonalds website.

Some other problems for obesity can also be aresult as problems such as:

• Laziness- Inactivity resulting from a dislike of physical activity.
• Psychological depression- Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy, causing them to sometimes overeat even they are not hungry
• Genetically- As stated above. When it is passed down a family line, making it almost inevitable for children to born obese.

If you were to ask someone how it feelsto be obese, the given reply would probably be that they feel unattractive, and have low self-esteem, which can cause an indirect mental illness. This mental illness in some cases may lead to the...