Obesity

14 May 2010 Obesity a great source of problems and revenue Obesity is now recognized as a global pandemic, also touching developing countries. More than 50 percent of the Canadians are either obese or overweight. It is not only in Canada the rate is so remarkable, in United-States it is about 60 percent. This issue is impressive: obesity despite of smoking is the greatest menace to Canadian public health, in addition it is the second highest a cause of death in the population. Healthcare Cost

forever in the throes of painful divorces, wedded to serial cheaters or longing to find the perfect man with whom to settle down and have babies. They are thin, therefore they must be happy. Right? The 24-year study of thousands of people found that obesity leads to more misery and suffering than being single, while being thin provides more satisfaction than a relationship. Psychologist Dr Pam Spurr commented on the report, confirming that in her experience a woman's weight has more impact on her happiness

Most of the time, tabloids have a very negative impact on people; especially people who are overweight. If we consider an American woman buying a tabloid magazine, she will find a variety of pictures of her favorite model in the magazine. The woman in the tabloid has a perfect body, is stunningly beautiful, all thanks to the latest diet she has undertaken. The caption of the article reads in bold letters: “She lost 12 lbs in two weeks”. The woman reading the article may think “Wow, this is great”

cornet rempli de 6 boules de glaces et la tablette n’est plus une représentation des lois, des droits et de la date de l’indépendance des Etats-Unis, mais et enfaite un menu spécialisé dans les Junk Food. Le titre de l’image, « the United State of obesity », situé en bas, ajouté à ces détails nous expose directement le problème nutritionnel que subissent les Américains. L'obésité chez les jeunes est un sujet qui en Amérique a suscité de nombreuses polémiques. Mais il reste vrai qu’un enfant sur six

English Project Prepared for : Le 11 december 2009 Prepared by : Laurence Peetremans and Violaine Brenez Date : Le 6 december 2009 Theme : Obesity in USA [pic] Introduction Why Americans are so fat? What do they do for that? It is an important question to raise today. With the economic crisis, a big Mac menu is cheaper than vegetables and fruits. The big companies take the lead on low prices. In a day-to-day life people don’t have time to sit down to have a meal. In spite of

Fast food restaurants have received much of the blame for the obesity epidemic sweeping through America with Europe and Japan fast catching up. Can these restaurants be held responsible for this epidemic . No one forces anyone to eat at a fast food restaurant. Some argue that the fast food chains simply offer good food at reasonable prices. The evidence shows that wherever the fast food chains go, obesity follows. In spite of evidence to the contrary, fast food restaurants are still seen by many

Obesity is a problem in many developed countries. TO encourage citizens to adopt a healthy diet some expert have proposed a fat tax on junk food based on their fat content.. What do you think of such a proposal? Obesity is such a plague that the expression « world epidemic » is often used to qualify it. This idiom, even if it is quiet wrong, implied that obesity touches more Voc/o = quite tps = présent and more people over the world. Vous devez absolument donner votre point de vue, clair

Nowadays, obesity is a big problem in many developed countries. If there were not too much fat people, it wouldn’t be a problem for government but only a personal problem for every people who are too fat. But in time, it becomes a problem everywhere people hasn’t enough money to eat what they want, or hasn’t enough time to prepare healthy meal. Obviously, in Africa for example, obesity doesn’t exist because people are too poor. Some experts have proposed a fat tax on junk food based their

living on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. There are a lot of things that are going to make life a challenge for you, but one of the most perilous will be your weight. Chances are very good that your parents already have a weight problem; obesity is rampant in the 30,000-member community, and half the residents over the age of 40 have Type 2 diabetes. Their genes--and yours, of course--are part of the problem: researchers theorize that Native Americans have a higher than average tendency to

in which a person has a high blood glucose level. This high blood glucose level cause as the major risk factor obesity. We know that this disease is due to several stuffs, and the first is the genetics. But studying a community, Pimas Indians, scientists realize that other factor cause the diabetes. Therefore the purpose is to determine how to prevent the onset of diabetes and obesity putting aside the genetic cause. 50 per cent of Indians Pimas have diabetes, and among them 95 per cent are overweight