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Obesity in America
Obesity in America has become a serious problem with estimates having risen from 11.6% of the American population being obese in 1990 to 25.1% of the American population being obese in 2007. The state of Alabama in 1990 had 12.3 % percent of their population with being obese and by 2007 they had 30.3% of their population having obese problems ranking them Number 1 in the United States for obesity.
The following is a list of the twenty states in the United States with the highest percentages of obesity for 2007.
Watch the following Video regarding America's Obesity Epidemic with former Surgeon General Richard Carmona
With the percentage of obese people in America being at 25.1% in 2007, this ranks the United States as having the highest percentages of obese people of all countries in the world. Over the past 20 years the percentage of obese adults in the United States has risen by 60% and the problems with obese children in the United States has as well tripled in the past thirty years. It is estimated that 33% of adults in the United States are obese and that as many as 300,000 adults die a year with obese related problems ranking as the second cause of death next to tobacco related deaths. It is definitely easily to figure out the problem behind obesity in America and that is being the American diet and lifestyle. Living the fast life on the go with eating out at fast food restaurants and eating microwave dinners, the health of a great majority of Americans has been sacrificed. When a good majority of Americans should be eating a diet of pure and wholesome foods coming directly from the land instead Americans eat a diet of packaged, processed and refined foods which leads to the obesity in America crisis. Through technological advancements over the years the United States has found ways to produce food in mass quantities, make it last longer and taste better. Unfortunately, during this processing somewhere along the line, they have seemed to have lost the food. The highly processed and refined products that pack the supermarket shelves throughout the United States are loaded with sugar, hydrogenated oils, and plenty more ingredients that one can't even pronounce and are definitely unhealthy for all as they lead to obesity problems. Over the past 30 years Fast Food Restaurants have become mainstream and practically all of America takes advantage of the cheap prices, quick service and tasty meals that only lead to obese problems. Convenient as they may be, these meals contain practically no nutrients as they are comprised mostly of saturated fats and highly refined carbohydrates and are also loaded with sodium and sugar. The average adult shouldn't have more than 65 grams of fat or 2000 calories a day. One meal from Burger King, a hamburger and French fries, has 50 grams of fat and 2000 calories, which is almost enough to fill someone's fat and calorie quota for the day! The average child sees more than 10,000 food ads on TV each year, most for high-calorie, high-fat, and high-sugar meals. Not only does the fast food industry spend billions per year on marketing, but they have also infiltrated the schools in America by signing contracts with them. As well children are bombarded from every angle with these toxic foods making it virtually impossible for them to eat anything else. It is no wonder that The United States has an increasingly obese population of children (who in time will become an obese population of adults). Americans have re-defined the word food. In the Webster's dictionary food is any nourishing substance eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc. In American society food is that which is fatty, tasty, processed, refined and contains no nutrients; a substance detrimental to the body's functions, creating disease, and resulting in death. At no time in history have humans eaten such refined, processed and fatty food and at no time in history have humans had such an obesity epidemic as obesity in America. Out of necessity, many obese people suffering from various complications and diseases have learned to change their diet. Those people, with determination and a will to survive, have succeeded in becoming healthy once again. They have learned that cutting out meat products, processed foods, fast-foods, high sugar and high sodium foods, while incorporating whole grains, vegetables, fruits and legumes into the diet is the only way to return back to health. It is not easy to go against the strong current of an unhealthy society but it is a necessity to solve the obesity in America issue.
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