Saturday, 15 November 2008


(my ticket paragraph)


Obesity and Overweight

Nowadays parents faced the most nightmares that probably could end their children lives. Obesity has dramatic increase in childhood. The research has shown that that approximately 40% of children in the United States are either overweight or obese (
http://www.emedicine.com). After cigarette smoking, obesity is the second-leading cause of preventable deaths in the US (http://www.healthatoz.com). It’s lead to many serious problems such as, heart disease, high blood pressure and cancer. This issue has caused by many reasons. Firstly, the genes has the main role in this problem because study show that if one or both of parent are obese, the children will have a big chance to become overweight (http://www.healthatoz.com). Secondly, lifestyle could affect the health condition, if the person spend most of his/her time at a desk or on a sofa, and no exercise their risk for obesity is higher (http://www.healthatoz.com). Thirdly, some people overate because they feel stressed out or suffering from depression, according to psychotherapist Shelia Harbet, PhD” binge eating temporarily relieves the stress of negative feelings. Unfortunately, binging is usually followed by feelings of guilt, shame, disgust and depression”. It’s a huge problem that needs to be solved.
This problem has many ways to be solved. First of all, the family must forced the child whose obese to follow a diet not only for him/her ,this healthy diet must be followed by the entire family , beside it will help them to be in a shape and having the perfect weigh, the obese child will feel more comfortable and have the support that he/her needs. Secondly, having exercise every day as a family activity will help the obese child to lose his/her weight and in the same time they will be closer as a family.

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