Obesity: A Growing Problem
Introduction
Obesity is fast becoming a serious health threat, not only in the United States of America, but all across the globe. Look around you; obesity is noticeable everywhere. (Warthtman, J., 2004) With obesity almost reaching epidemic proportions in the United States, and on the threshold of a global epidemic, we must watch this alarming increase carefully (Hill, J.O., & Peters, J.C., 1998) and begin to take actions to stop this phenomenon immediately; otherwise obesity will lead to mortality rates never before imagined in the human race. Interestingly, there are more overweight people than hungry people in the world today. According to the latest statistics from the world health organization, in 2005, of the world’s 6.5 billion people, about 1.6 billion adults were overweight (400 million obese) while about 850million were hungry. While this phenomenon may come as a welcome relief and far cry from the usual world hunger images of the recent......

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