Obesity Persuasive Speech

Obesity is a disease that many Americans develop over the course of their lives. What makes obesity, such a serious matter is that it is the leading cause of life-threatening diseases such as cancer, heart failure, diabetes, and even depression. To make matters worse the United States had the highest rate of obesity and are estimated that about ¾ of the American population will likely be overweight or obese by 2020, according to Wikipedia. This is just not for adults, it is also for children who reportedly make up about 17 percent of the population are overweight and 63 percent of teenage girls are predicted to become overweight by age 11 (Wikipedia). The most practical solution to ending obesity would be developing good eating habits, encourage more exercising, staying away from what is called ‘Junk Food Marketing’, and a decrease in soda intake.

A. Educating parents, conducting child health seminars and maximizing the government advertisement for a healthy living are possible solutions to reduce the problem of child obesity. B. How will they reduce the child

According to a journal from the International Association for the Study of Obesity, “Obesity prevention is necessary to address the steady rise in the prevalence of obesity” (Müller, 2001). Soechtig and the panel of experts all agree that prevention is the best means to help stop this epidemic. Many people see prevention as to just stop eating bad or unhealthy food. Well, that’s not the case. Prevention deals with any things.

Mexico is experiencing an obesity epidemic. 73% of adults and 35% of children and adolescents are overweight or obese, that is, in total 60.6 million people (52% of Mexicans) suffer from this condition. Overweight and obesity (SPyO) is the main risk factor for disability and death for Mexicans. According to data from the Global Burden of Disease, SPyO is mainly associated with diabetes and cardiovascular disease, but also with bone and muscle disorders and some types of cancer. With that being said, it is clear that obesity is a problem and it is a problem that suffers more than half of the country.

Obese children are more likely to have high blood pressure, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, respiratory problems, joint problems, and experiences of social stigma. The fiscal impact of obesity is very high. It is estimated that the United States spends an estimated $147 billion dollars in 2008 on medical care costs related to obesity. 23% of this total is financed by Medicare and 19% by Medicaid. If states have interest and drive to promote healthy behavior, citizens could live longer and contribute to a productive society.

Poverty In America There are many issues going on inside of our country from climate change to domestic violence. However,today i will be addressing a topic that I find more important.This topic is affecting 45 million people, or 14.5 percent of all Americans. The topic I will be addressing is poverty. According to statista.com about 11.3 percent of the population was living below the poverty line in 2000. In 2016, the poverty rate was increased to 12.7 percent of the U.S. As the statistic shows poverty in the U.S is only growing and isn't being seen or talked about.

A daunting task for anyone who is running a fundraiser or seeking funds for a special cause is writing a donation request letter. This includes soliciting a company or business to donate a prize for a raffle. If a person only does this once or twice a year, then a refresher may be necessary. The main thing to realize is to not feel overwhelmed. The best place to start when seeking donations for a raffle prize is to gather contact information for the people, local businesses, and contacts you already know.

Obesity is regarded as a health problem since it is associated with numerous co-morbidities, including type-2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease and some cancers (Department of Health, 2004). In recent years, statistics have suggested the existence of a global obesity ‘epidemic’ (WHO, 2000), posing a significant challenge to healthcare systems and governments over how to ‘cure’ and ‘manage’ the condition. Consequently, the trend toward increasing prevalence of obesity in older adults will lead to an increase in unhealthy life years and health-care costs (De Caria et al., 2012). This concept of the pathogenesis of obesity as a disease allows an easy division of disadvantage of obesity into those produced by the mass of fat and those produced by the metabolic effects of fat cells. In the former category are the social disabilities resulting from the stigma associated with obesity, sleep apnea that results in part from increased parapharyngeal fat deposits, and osteoarthritis resulting from the wear and tear on joints from carrying an increased mass of fat.

Work that fat with six pack shortcuts 2 The modern generations is plagued by the problem of obesity as he prices of junk food have gone down while healthy eating has become a lot more expensive for the people to afford and when coupled with the lazy attitude of the millions of people from across the world, the problem just intensities to a point where it can't be controlled considering the risks of high fat. This is one of the biggest reasons as to why people need to kick the junk out and go for healthy eating and exercise to get into shape and stay healthy. Obesity has a lot of risks and to eliminate that comes one of the biggest names from the fitness communities Mike Chang who has now launched the much anticipated Six pack shortcuts 2 as a

A dangerous, yet hidden, epidemic is currently taking place in America. Affecting more than 1.5% of women in their lifetime, this silent killer will be the death of 3.9% of those sufferers—adding up to a total of 73,651 preventable deaths (Eating Disorder Hope). Those suffering will misuse laxatives, over exercise, and, in extreme cases, self-induce vomiting to “purge” calories after consuming copious amounts of food. The name of this disorder is bulimia nervosa. Bulimia is one of the most common eating disorders in American society; however, many choose to mock and ridicule those who suffer from it.

So many 22 year olds die due to over alcoholic consumption, so lowering the MLDA would be irresponsible to increase the chance of more fatalities. According to Cdc.gov “excessive drinking contributes to more than 4,300 deaths among people below 21 in the US each year”. Lowering the LACA (Legal Alcohol Consumption Age) would just increase that

Over the past generation obesity has become a major health issue. The term obesity is best describe as someone having a body mass index (BMI) equal to or above the 95th percentile. Within both genders of African American children and adolescent obesity has increased tremendously. Obesity can contribute too many chronic illnesses down the line if left untreated such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, asthma, and type 2 diabetes (Coreil, 2009). Studies have reported that within low income communities 1 out of 3 children are considered as overweight or obese (Ogden et al., 2010).

Obesity worldwide epidemic Today there is an epidemic that eventually has affected all humans thanks to this epidemic people tend to suffer health problems. This epidemic is call obesity and it is a worldwide disease, obesity a disorder involving excessive body fat that increases the risk of health problems. This disease affects all ages it can be female or male it doesn 't matter, but there are more than 3 million US cases per year. Sadly many of these people don 't really care about their health and keep eating how ever they want, of course no one is going to stop people from eating right? But what about kids and teenagers?

Preventing obesity in older adults in America. Obesity is a disorder involving excessive body that increases the risk of health problems. Obesity is known to be a big problem not only in North Carolina, but in America, that continues to grow each and everyday. According to the WHO (World Health Organization), "A person is obese when their body mass is 30 percent of greater"(pp.2). When a person is overweight or obese, it means the person has taking in more calories than he/she needs.

This is a mockery to those living in extreme poverty. It is estimated that around 175 billion US dollars would be necessary to end world poverty. In place of the industry that kills around 500 000 people annually in the US, this money could be contributed towards the evident catastrophe that causes nearly half of the world 's population to live in poor conditions. The cigarette industry depends on the nicotine (an addictive additive which can lead to the development of nicotine tolerance. This means that the affected person needs to use nicotine regularly to maintain normal brain function) to expect returning customers to pay more money to satisfy their addictions.