Category: Obesity

Effects of Obesity in Pregnancy Obesity in the UK maternity services is the biggest issue faced today, with complications in labour causing concern as well as added costs on the National Health Service (NHS) (Ziauddeen & Alwan, 2019). In the past decade, obesity in pregnant women has doubled from around 22% in 2010 to 44%…

Solutions to Obesity: Problem and Solution Essay Obesity is a growing issue facing todays society. There are many reasons for this growing issue. This is due in part to genetics and diets. Obesity has taken its toll on every country across the globe in many ways. Obesity is a huge issue that varies in severity…

The Ways of Preventing Obesity When reviewing income in Princeton, Indiana, the median income is 41,340 with 15% of the population living in poverty (United States Census Bureau, 2017, Income and Poverty section). Although the percent of the population living in poverty is relatively low, 1,971 children in Gibson County are receiving free or reduced…

Obesity as a Leading Health Indicator One of the Leading Health Indicators of Healthy People 2020 is nutrition, physical activity, and obesity. Throughout the progress of Healthy People 2020 from 2010 until now, the target for this indicator is 20.1% for Adults meeting physical activity and muscle-strengthening Federal guidelines, the rate in the most recent…

The Role of Biology in Obesity Its all too common to see someone and make a snap judgement about them. We are all guilty of forming preconceived notions about others, whether theyre regarding race, gender, clothing, or any other superficial feature. Disappointingly enough, ones weight falls under the umbrella of prejudice. The stigma surrounding obesity…

Cause of Obesity, Health, Implications and Treatment Abstract Obesity is a medical condition in wich the body fat is accumulated to an extent that it may have a negative effect on health. To calculate if a person is obese or not we use the formula of body mass index (BMI), in wich weight (in kilogram)…

The Role of Biochemistry in Providing a Solution to the Obesity Pandemic Introduction There is an obesity epidemic in the Western world. In this write up we will be discussing obesity, its causes and the role biochemistry can play to help provide solutions to this issue. Obesity is a condition in which the body weight…

How Obesity can Change our Lives Obesity is a chronic illness that it mainly consists when you have a high percentage of fat in your body. Obesity its produced when you consume extra calories than what your body needs accumulating body fat, making you gain a lot of weight, and it affects your health negatively,…

Health and Side Effects of Obesity Did you know that …at least 2.8 million people each year [die] as a result of being overweight or obese? World Health Organization. (2017, obesity). Obesity is a big issue that is affecting people of all ages around the world. There are many causes of obesity such as overeating,…

Worldwide Issue of Obesity High blood pressure in children and adolescents is a growing health problem, along with the worldwide epidemics of obesity physical inactivity and nutritional factors (Wang, et al., 2019). There is evidence of a consistent link between vitamin D and blood pressure, the study highlighted the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and…