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Obesity is a disease when you have too much body fat. It means your weight is unhealthy for your height. It occurs when you eat more calories then you can burn off. There is many things that can affect your body weight such as overeating, not being physically active, and your genetics. Some symptoms are increase of a risk in diabetes, heart disease, strokes, arthritis, and cancer. Some of the reason people are obese is because they are tempted to eat unhealthy and not be active. Some reasons for this is because most restaurants, mostly fast food, do not offer healthy choices. Although it is getting better it is still not good enough to convince people to eat healthier when there are still all the "delicious" unhealthy options. Also people are not getting out enough, and technology is a big reason why. The option to stay at home and sit in a chair for hours and hours is easy to take advantage of when you have a TV and a cell phone right in front of you. Therefor people are perfectly content staying at home sitting a chair.

It is a problem because it is causing sicknesses in children from 2-19 years of age and most adults. It is very serious and costly. More than one third of American adults are obese. The annual medical cost of a obesity in the United States alone was 147 billion dollars in just 2008. The medical cost for people that are obese is $1,429 higher than people that are at a normal and healthy weight. Obesity is more common in middle age adults from 40-59 years old, which is 40% higher than adults aged 20-39 and 60 or above. Adults who are wealthy tend to be more obese than people who are less wealthy. For men education doesn't seem to impact there obesity, but for woman if they are more educated then they are less likely to be obese. This is taking a big toll on society more and more people are overweight every year, and more people are getting sicknesses because of obesity.

Some possible solutions are, limiting the amount of fast food resteraunts in certian areas, even out the ratios of healthy and unhealthy foods at resteraunts. Only sell a the serving of a snack instead of double in a package. Enforce and Encourage people to do active activities, also create activities that people of all ages will enjoy.