By Emily Bonham Posted May 7, 2010
In America, fast food is part of everyday life for the working citizens. Eating at McDonald’s or Wendy’s every day will take a toll on men and women. America has started seeing a whole different type of overweight. In the last ten years, obesity has become a growing problem in the world, not just in the United States. Morbid obesity is becoming a problem very fast.
Normally obesity starts out in a person’s childhood. Children say they’re hungry so their parents just continue to feed them as a child. The problem is that they never really feel like they are full so they will just continue eating. If a person weighs 100 lbs. over the healthy weight for their height, or has a BMI of 40 or over, this is considered being morbidly obese. Most people who reach 700 lbs. become immobile. They have many health problems including malnutrition, congestive heart problems, the inability to use the bathroom, and fluid leaking from your skin. Most of the time the person can’t do the daily tasks their body needs to so you have to hire 24-hour care.
I believe it is a big problem but what can people do to prevent this? When children are young, parents should teach them about healthy food choices and that exercising is fun. Parents also need to give children an average portion, not more or less. When children are full don’t continue making them eat it. When a body is full they just store the food you eat to body fat. Of course, you need somebody fat but not an excess of body fat. There is no way to prevent it completely but parents can try to help children gain healthy eating habits when they’re young so they make the right food choices when they are out on their own.
