Obesity

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that obesity is one of the most significant health problems in the United States because it affects approximately two-thirds of all Americans. The paper relates that today the primary cause of obesity is the shift to sedentary work and passive recreational activities in the second half of the 20th century. The paper further relates that obesity is a significant societal concern because the medical consequences include myriad risk factors in the development of serious conditions including diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol and certain forms of cancer, as well as conditions like arthritis and clinical depression.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Problem
Social Causes of Obesity
Obesity as a Causes of Disease
Solution
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"More importantly, long-term proper weight maintenance requires reducing total fats to approximately twenty percent of caloric intake; minimal consumption of saturated trans fats, sugars, and simple carbohydrates. By definition, fast foods have no part within a long-term healthy weight maintenance programs, except as a very infrequent indulgence, because numerous well publicized national reports have demonstrated that a single typical meal from any of the most popular fast food outlets contains practically an entire day's allotment of total fat, trans fat, sugar, and sodium."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Gibbs, N, (2007) One Day in America. Time Magazine. Nov. 26 /07 (pp. 60-61)
• Larson-Duyff, R. (2002) American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide. Hoboken: Wiley & Sons.
• Lightsey, D. (2006) Muscles, Speed, and Lies: What the Sports Supplement Industry Does Not Want Athletes or Consumers to Know. Guilford: Lyons Press.
• Rinzler, C.A. (2004) Nutrition for Dummies. Hoboken: Wiley & Sons.
• Sizer, F., Whitney, E. (2003) Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies. Belmont: Wadsworth/Thomson.

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