Obesity

Obesity Currently, in the United States obesity has become an epidemic. Everywhere you look your sure to see an individual’s that is overweight or even obese. “Results of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2000 indicate that an estimated 64% of U.S adults are either overweight or obese, defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or more” (Defining Overweight and Obesity 1). What causes obesity' Is it our genetic make up' Is it Metabolic or Behavioral' Many different people from Doctors to scientist and even your plain Jane or average Joe would agree that the problem is within our society. As a whole we just plain over eat and have a lack of activity in our life. We need to watch our caloric intake of food by eating healthier. In addition, we as a nation need to get away from the “couch-potato” lifestyles and get a moving. The human body needs to burn the calories which we have consumed by some form of exercise. Walking, running, or riding your bike is a few activities we can do to improve our physical health. Obesity is defined as an excessively obesity, body, food, brain, study, scientists, overweight, new, need, mass, gene, fat, even, bmi, without, weight, scientist, over, obese, national, metabolism, measure, genes, foods, eating, eat, cause, way, waist, using, stimulation, radioactive, process, problem, plain