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OBESITY
It seems ironical that in a country where most everybody wants to be thin, more and more people are becoming overweight. ... population being overweight, obesity has become an epidemic. ... accounts for 280,000 deaths annually due to obesity and at current rates it will surpass smoking as the primary cause of preventable death. As time wears on, experts estimate that the cost of the fight against obesity will make the fight against AIDS seem cheap. (Crister, 462) And as our country seems to get fatter and fatter, scientists and researchers try to discover the causes for obesity in hope of finding a cure. However, finding a cure to obesity is not a simple task. Unlike the successful “war on tobacco,” there are many more elements and factors which must be taken into affect towards this “war on obesity. ... Trying to beat obesity out economically will eventually fall out on its own. ... In the early twentieth century, France, in response to the first signs of child obesity, started the puericulture movement. ...
Perhaps the area which will have the most influence in this “war on obesity” is the medical field. ... Anorexia could be argued to be as serious a health issue as obesity, though not as widespread.
Approximate Word count = 1694
Approximate Pages = 6.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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