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Obesity is an unnatural build up of body fat, usually 20% or more over an individual’s ideal body weight. One in four people are obese which means if you have a group of 32 people 8 of that 32 people are obese. **__ Obesity and affects __** Obesity is defined as an extremely high amount of body fat in relation to lean body mass. Overweight is excess weight for height. Obesity is measured by a body mass index [BMI] and is commonly used to analyse humans as overweight and obese. Some causes of obesity are lack of food choices, lack of physical activity, spending a lot of time on electronic things E.G. computer, Playstation ECT, overweight parents, genetics or emotions. It’s important that we prevent child obesity because if we don’t then children could end up with life threatening diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. Affects of child obesity are type 2 diabetes, High blood pressure and sleep apnoea and some of the physiological affects include low self esteem and social discrimination. Does fast food cause obesity? The simple answer is no the reason behind that is because you can eat fast food on a regular basis and not become obese. In fact you can even lose weight by eating fast food. However this requires knowledge of not only how many calories you are burning on a daily basis, but also the calories in the food your eating. ¾ Don’t reward children with food.Candy and snacks encourage bad habits. ¾ Go for walks, ride bikes, go swimming, garden or even play hide and seek with your children. ¾ Put a limit on TV, video game ECT ¾ Insist on good food choices at the school canteen. ¾ Encourage school principals to offer more fitness opportunities. ¾ Get your children into a sports club. By doing these things you could prevent your child from becoming obese.
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Obesity is becoming a crisis in nearly every nation the US, Uk, Slovakia, Mexico, Greece, Australia and New Zealand are some of the most obese countries, Graph showing below.