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The Negative Aspects of Obesity
According to Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia ’98, they describe obesity a medical condition of excess fat inside the body. Obesity is a type of eating disorder that is easy to understand. ...
One of the things obesity causes are diseases and certain kinds of sickness. ... Unhealthy weight from obesity causes diabetes. Medical researchers estimate that between eighty-eight to ninety-seven percent of the cases of type II diabetes that are diagnosed in overweight patients are associated with their obesity (Gupta 2). ... In the Western world, about a third of all cases of hypertension are thought to be due to obesity, and in men under forty-five years it may be as high as sixty percent (Gupta 2). Unhealthy weight from obesity also causes coronary heart disease. ... According to the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, forty percent of children ages five to eight show at least one heart disease risk factor (such as physical inactivity, obesity, elevated cholesterol and high blood pressure) (Darling 2). Obesity also causes blood vessels to narrow because of fat and will block passage to the brain and cause a stroke.
Approximate Word count = 895
Approximate Pages = 3.6
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