What Are the Effects of Obesity in America

What are the effects of obesity in America? Over the years there has been a dramatic in crease of obesity in the United States. Obesity is the condition of being very fat or overweight. There is a large amount of un-healthy fast food services in the United States, which causes a better possibility for citizens to become obese. Obesity also has a large amount of affection towards your physical appearance and mental emotions. Fast food is one of the main sources that contribute to obesity.

Most of the time people are to busy working or, for whatever reason, they don't have time to cook or prepare a meal for themselves or their family. They want something good, quick, and of course with this economy cheap! Their solutions are the fast food places, most commonly Mc. Donald's. Why? Because kids love them, happy meals come with a toy, they have a play place to distract the children, and it's also the most common restaurant across the U.S. Mc. Donald's sign is now more recognized then the Christian cross. There are also enlarging the sizes of the meals, signifying that the amount of calories, sugar, caffeine etc. is increasing because the sizes are two times bigger than before. "Americans spend over $100 billion on fast food every year, which means 25 percent of Americans consume fast food every day" (Wikipedia). In fact there are now eating 31 percent more calories then we were forty years ago. Some Americans don't realize nor pay much attention to the amount of calories, sugar, caffeine etc. Their meals have. Neither do they think about how it can affect one's health.

A large variety of obese people have multiple issues dealing with there physical and emotional appeals. "Individuals dealing with obesity related issues often have deep rooted psychological, emotional, and self- esteems related challenges that they face on the daily basis" (associationdatabase). Obese people most of the time feel uncomfortable with themselves they also have lack of confidence not all, but most, because their fat which also faces upon there life-style and prevents them from doing what they want. It can also put someone's life at risk. A lot of the reasons why people don't do many physical activities are because life has gotten easier. There is a lot of electronics and machinery to be involved with now, comparing to before. It isn't a bad thing but instead of children walking to school, they get busses or car rides. Instead of going outside and playing a sport, they rather play video games or watch television and movies. Over the years Americans have also increased on the amount of snacks their children eat a day. Thirty years ago kids would just eat one snack a day. They are now trending towards three, so there are taking an additional of 200 calories each day just from snacks. One in five school-aged kids has up to six snacks a day. "One third of all children born in