Obesity

Obesity Abstract In today’s society the number of obese children is rising. There are said to be many factors involved in causing obesity. However scientist still don’t know the real cause. Obesity is becoming a huge health threat to children and only with the proper research can it be solved. Adolescent Obesity In today’s society huge corporations pray on the pockets of overweight people and make millions of dollars. It is estimated that Americans alone spend 80-100 billion dollars on weight-loss tactics annually. However, about one-third of the America’s population is extremely over-weight and out of that one out of seven children ages 6-17 is considered obese. Obesity in teens has also sky rocketed over the last century. According to the health department’s Healthy People 2000 standards, one out of five teenagers is overweight and the rates are much higher among ethnic and racial minorities and lowest income group. (Berg 18) America is now facing a huge epidemic of adolescent obesity. The National Commission on the Role of School and Community in Improving Adolescent Health is concerned about this. In 1990, the Commission warned: “ For the first obesity, children, overweight, obese, weight, health, people, parents, food, adolescent, research, percent, one, government, two, less, huge, high, fat, childhood, child, calories, berg, being, out, know, important, however, considered, cause, cancer, body, adults, adopted, young