Adolescent Obesity
200 words for each respond
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My project topic is Adolescent Obesity. There is a requirement that the topic should have some reflection with healthy people 2020 concerning healthy condition, with the possibility of providing interventions/solutions. Having this in mind, I researched deeply into my community. I visited places of interest where series of activities prevail with easy access of meeting people. I was at the schools (elementary, Middle and High schools), fast food venues such as McDonalds, Wendy, Burger King, Dinkins and Dairy Queen including the WaWa stores. I also visited subways in stores (Walmart), eatery in IKEA, Church, Recreational center (YMCA) and other open spaces. I kept observing a prevalent condition in the adolescents that needed immediate intervention. This unhealthy condition is Adolescent Obesity. It aroused my interest and contributed along with other factors to my choice of this topic.
From my findings, I realized that the church is a better place to present this topic because it is one of the places where these unhealthy food (cupcakes) and other food that are energy rich, protein poor, heavily soaked in saturated oil or Trans fats and preservatives such as sodium, monosodium glutamate (Doritos and potato chips) along with some sugary solutions blended with color and disguise as juices are served free of charge as refreshment for members (mostly adolescents). According to Brazier (2018) obesity is a medical condition that occurs when a person carries excess weight or body fat that might affect their health. Adolescent obesity is a childhood possession of excessive weight or fat in the body thereby making them grow out of shape and keeping them very unhealthy, and resulting in different sicknesses such as hypertension, Type 11 diabetes to mention but a few. Adolescent Obesity is caused by unhealthy eating habits, sedentary life style, Depression, Genetics and Hereditary.
