Weight Gain And Obesity In America

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Introduction
A current controversy that relates to fast food in America is, weight gain and obesity. Weight gain and obesity make the rates of type 2 diabetes and inadequate cardiovascular conditions arise. As the conditions ascend it slowly kills our country.
Weight Gain and Obesity
A typical fast food meal is exceedingly high in fat and calories. The average fast food meal has about 836 calories. Weight gain occurs when you engross more calories than you burn in a day. Everyday the average person burns 1620 calories. Also, the average amount of calorie eaten in a day is 2,640. In a 2004 study published in the “The Lancet”, investigators found that eating fast food more than twice per week at fast food restaurants is linked to significantly
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In a 2005 study published in the “Canadian Journal of Public Health”researchers at the institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, Canada found that regions with high concentrations of fast food restaurants are 2.62 times more likely to have extremely high levels of hospitalization for coronary problems. A 2010 study by researchers at the University of South Australia supported this. Their findings, published in the “European Journal of Epidemiology” indicated that, for each 10 percent increase in the density of fast food restaurants in a region people are 1.39 times more likely to die from a cardiovascular …show more content…
Cardiovascular disease kills more than 1 million people each year. That is 42% of all deaths.
Not one state in the United States meets the Healthy People Guidelines of obesity at 15% or less.
In 2010, only 1 state (Colorado) had an obesity rate of less than 20%.
Nearly 34% of adult men and women over the age of 20 are obese.
2 out of 3 Americans are overweight (67%).
In less than 10 years, a full 75% of adult Americans will be overweight.
Childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years, to 25% of those less than 19 years of age.
Americans consume more than 500 calories today than we did in the 1960s.
$150 billion will be spent (and increase) each year on obesity-related illnesses.
$174 billion (and increasing) will be spent each year on diabetes-related illnesses.
In 2009, more than half the cancers diagnosed were cancers of the prostate, female breast, lung, and colon; a direct result of our high-fat diets, according to the National Research Council.
According to the National Cancer Institute, 75% of cancers are rooted in environmental and lifestyle causes—and can be prevented.
Citation
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-health/how-fast-food-has-changed-our-nation/