Obesity

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Submitted by chatp12 on April 3, 2010

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Obesity

Obesity is one of the most important issues, in the world today. The sad truth is that Americans are some of the unhealthiest people in the world. I think, even though we are living in a country with great economic power and technological advancement, we are, also, living in a country with the smallest fund of practical nutritional knowledge. Studies show that Americans, today, are living in a land, plagued with obesity (www.obesityinamerica.org ). According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), obesity in adults have increased by about 70%, within the past twenty years and the obesity in young children has tripled in the past thirty years. Obese-related deaths have...

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