Unit three ethical essay

It is estimated that 55% of the adult population in the United States are either obese or overweight. Obesity has increased in a way to where an individual is at risk of suffering from chronic diseases such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, and diabetes. Those with excess fat in the abdominal area are at increased health risk.While obesity rates have become higher, levels of physical activity have lessened. For the overweight, a lifestyle approach to physical activity may be less likely but can be helped by just a simple exercise. There are many things that can be done that could prevent obesity from happening. Studies have shown that the core of this problem as young as kids start right from the parents. Parents who prefer to eat out and do fast food all the time. Instead of making the family a nice healthy home cooked meal.Each year obesity causes at lease three hundred thousand deaths in the United States. I feel that this is something that can be prevented by each individual person if we ourselves started doing more physical activities. Most peoples daily lifestyles consist of sitting in a chair in front of the computer all day long. Then a family will choose to go to a movie instead of going for a hike. Video games, movies, computers, ect. has changed people life styles tremendously.I think that if we just allowed some exercise of any kind through out the day that it would make a huge differance.I myself, have a treadmill in my living room, so when there is a day that I didn't gat any physical activity in. I will run on that for about two miles. I feel every little bit helps. In just doing a little thing like that, twenty minutes out of the day, could lessen the statistic of obese people.