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Image: Problems of Being Overweight

Reading this article clarified a lot of problems that the United States is having with adolescents, adults and elderly people and their over all health and weight. This article talks about what can possibly affect people’s capability of gaining and losing weight and it talks about the factors that play a role in the obesity rate that continues to become a growing issue including their gender and their age. After reading this source I wonder why some people are given the metabolism of a young child and some people have one of a sixty-year-old. Metabolism does help play a huge roll in someone’s capability to maintain a healthy weight, including what were eating. It also had me wondering if what the mother is eating during pregnancy and how she maintains her health will have an affect on the baby’s weight and health throughout childhood. It also makes me wonder how gender can play such a big roll in weight, age makes sense since as you get older your body gets slower and things stop working as well. I found this source to be extremely useful and helpful when it came to information about Obesity within the United States, giving us a better understanding of what can play a role in our health. The other source we used is the website is the center of disease control, should we consider obesity a disease? It is something that many people nationwide and worldwide seem to struggle with and I, in fact, believe that Obesity and eating disorders are a metal disease with physical side effects that many Americans cannot get control of. This website and these articles didn’t really leave anything up for question when it came to obesity, this article and website and more than enough information about it and on every angle of the topic from how to watch and prevent it, on children’s obesity rates and even resources on the slow growth of obesity state wide. After reading this source I wonder why America has allowed an issue that we have so much information about get so out of hand and so common for the average citizen to experience. I understand it is not something the government can force on people, exercise and a healthy lifestyle but they certainly don’t enforce it either. I enjoyed reading from this website, it had a lot of information and it was easy to get a lot of it just from one source.