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Introduction
In this coursework, I will be analyzing various sources, to find out if obesity correlates with the health and fitness levels of individuals. ...
From the data that I would have gathered from these sources, I will use to provide evidence backing the case that obesity does have a positive effect on lifestyle, health and fitness.
As this is a large topic, I will divide it into five sections:
1. The health and fitness levels of modern society. ... Childhood Obesity
• Causes
• Prevention – Families; Schools. ... The science of obesity. ...
The health and fitness levels of modern society.
Before we can begin talking about obesity, we have got to know what it is.
Well according to the American Obesity Association:
Obesity is not a simple condition of eating too much. It is now recognized that obesity is a serious, chronic disease. No human condition — not race, religion, gender, ethnicity or disease state — compares to obesity in prevalence and prejudice, mortality and morbidity, sickness and stigma. ... These topics will be covered in section two: Childhood Obesity.
For now however, I will look at the health and fitness levels of modern society and how this could contribute in the increase in obesity in modern society.
It’s without a doubt that the nations health and fitness levels has been in decline throughout the 20th century. The question is though, why has our health and fitness levels been in decline, what key factors are causing us to decrease in our physical activity levels? ...
This is because fast food chains use of clever marketing science and efficiency has created temptations among individuals to indulge into such food, which in turn could cause obesity, due to an unhealthy diet. ...
• More than 60 percent of adults do not achieve the recommended amount of regular physical activity. ...
• The fiscal cost to the US, of the overweight and obesity problem, is $99. ... Now that food is at abundant, we as a nation overeat and due to lack of exercise do not burn the excess calories off; which in turn causes us to put on weight and in some cases become obesity, due to persistent abuse of overeating. ...
Apart from the above evidence showing the reason for the increase in obesity, similar research that has been carried out by the “British Heart Foundation” has found and displayed in the below graph, the physical activity of adults in the UK:
It is recommended that adults should aim for at least 30 minutes of moderate activity on five or more days of the week. ... Activity declines rapidly with age with only 17% men and 12% of women aged 65-74 meeting recommended levels.
Compared with the general population, South Asian and Chinese men and women are less likely to participate in physical activity, with the lowest levels found in the Bangladeshi community. ...
Children are recommended to participate in moderate intensity activity for at least an hour a day. ...
Childhood Obesity.
To tackle the issue of obesity we must tackle it at an early age. However, in reality this is not the case, as childhood obesity has doubled since 1980 (F4F).
The causes of this, has been mentioned in the previous topic, “The health and fitness levels of modern society”, where I discussed the issues of fast food and technology contributing to a poor diet as well as causing lack of physical exercise.
Statistical research that has shown evidence of the increase in childhood obesity has been carried out by Fit 4 Free:
Youth Statistics
• The percentage of young people who are overweight has doubled since 1980. ...
• Fitness tests administered throughout California in 1999 found that only about one in five students in the fifth, seventh, and ninth grades met the standards for all health-related fitness components and that more than 40% did not meet the minimum fitness standard for cardio respiratory endurance.
As you can see from the above stats, obesity has come to the stage where it has become a worrying issue, which from further research by the American Obesity Association, it has been found that about 15.
Approximate Word count = 3251
Approximate Pages = 13
(250 words per page double spaced)
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