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    Obesity is a medical condition where excess body fat has accumulated to an extent that it may negatively impact health. It is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) over 30 kg/m2. It is most commonly caused by a combination of eating too much, lack of physical activity, and genetic factors. Childhood and adult obesity rates have been increasing worldwide, posing future health risks like cardiovascular disease and cancer. Annual medical costs associated with obesity were estimated at $78.5 billion in 1998, with half covered by public programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Obesity continues to burden both public and private health systems.

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    Obesity is a medical condition where excess body fat has accumulated to an extent that it may negatively impact health. It is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) over 30 kg/m2. It is most commonly caused by a combination of eating too much, lack of physical activity, and genetic factors. Childhood and adult obesity rates have been increasing worldwide, posing future health risks like cardiovascular disease and cancer. Annual medical costs associated with obesity were estimated at $78.5 billion in 1998, with half covered by public programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Obesity continues to burden both public and private health systems.

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    Obesity is a medical condition where excess body fat has accumulated to an extent that it may negatively impact health. It is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) over 30 kg/m2. It is most commonly caused by a combination of eating too much, lack of physical activity, and genetic factors. Childhood and adult obesity rates have been increasing worldwide, posing future health risks like cardiovascular disease and cancer. Annual medical costs associated with obesity were estimated at $78.5 billion in 1998, with half covered by public programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Obesity continues to burden both public and private health systems.

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    What Is Obesity

    People nowadays likes to eat unhealthy food


    excessively such as burgers,pizzas,fried chicken and much more
    without thinking the risk that they have to bear in the future.This
    habits may lead them to become obesity but obesity also can exist
    because of genetic factors.First and foremost,what is obesity?
    According to the dictionary,obesity is a medical condition in which
    excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a
    negative effect on health. People are generally considered obese
    when their body mass index (BMI), a measurement obtained by
    dividing a person's weight by the square of the person's height, is
    over 30 kg/m2, with the range 2530 kg/m2 defined as
    overweight. BMI is closely related to both percentage body fat and
    total body fat.Obesity is most commonly caused by a combination
    of excessive food intake, lack of physical activity, and genetic
    susceptibility.A few cases are caused primarily by genes,
    endocrine disorders, medications, or mental illness. Evidence to
    support the view that obese people eat little yet gain weight due
    to a slow metabolism is not generally supported. On average,
    obese people have a greater energy expenditure than their thin
    counterparts due to the energy required to maintain an increased
    body mass. Like many other medical conditions, obesity is the
    result of an interplay between genetic and environmental factors.
    During human evolution, people are prone to obesity due to some
    problems.(wikipedia 2014)
    Next , childhood and adult obesity also become increasing
    worldwide nowadays. Levels of childhood obesity are increasing
    at alarming rates in many countries .Prevalence of childhood
    obesity is very high.Childhood obesity is a long term condition
    with associated co-morbidities,many of which are not always
    readily identifiable.Thus,the children will suffer from
    endocrinological,orthopaedic and psychological.Future health
    risks loom and a significant risk cardiovascular disease,metabolic
    disease and cancer seems to be non-ignorable in adulthood.For
    adult obesity,nationally nearly 38 percent of adults are
    obese.Nearly 8 percent of adults are extreamly obese.Nearly 33
    percent of adults who did not graduate high school werw obese
    compared with 21.5 percent of those who graduated from college.

    Lastly,annual medical spending attribute to obesity.in 1998 the


    medical costs of obesity were estimated to be as high as78.5
    Billion pounds with roughly half financed by Medicare and
    medicaid.For data,analysis relies on data from 1998 and 2006
    Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys (MEPS).MEPS is a nationally
    repesentative survey of the civilian nonistitutionalized population
    that quantifies a persons total annual medicare spending by type
    of service and source of payment .These results reveal that
    obesity continious to impose an economic burden on both public
    and private payers.In conclusion, rate of obesity increase every
    year.(Eric A.Finkelstein ,Justin G. Trogdon and William Dietz,1998)
    References
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity
    2. http://easo.org/education-portal/obesity-facts-figures/
    3. http://content.healthaffairs.org/search?author1=Justin+G.
    +Trogdon&sortspec=date&submit=Submit

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