Obesity A Major Problem Today Society Within The United...

Obesity is a major problem in today’s society within the United States. To be more specific, childhood obesity. Childhood obesity is becoming worse, and the adults don’t realize the impact it has on the rest of the child s life. According to Americas Let’s Move initiative the definition of Obesity is, â€Å"excess body fat. Because body fat is difficult to measure directly, obesity is often measured by body mass index (BMI), a common scientific way to screen for whether a person is underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese ( Obama). According to Jean Cowie, â€Å"obesity is caused by an imbalance in equilibrium between energy intake and energy expenditure† (Cowie). Metabolism plays a huge role in the upcoming stages of becoming obese. One of†¦show more content†¦The complications can range from heart disease, type 2 diabetes, asthma, high cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, and even sleep apnea. These health complications lead to many social complications. Social complications that can be linked to things such as bullying. According to Americas Let’s Move initiative, â€Å"overweight and obese children can often be targets of early social discrimination†. â€Å"Numerous studies have documented harmful weight-based stereotypes that overweight and obese individuals are lazy, weak-willed, unsuccessful, unintelligent, lack self-discipline, have poor willpower, and are noncompliant with weight-loss treatment (Obama). This being stated allows for psychological stress in an individual which can also lead to lower self-esteem. With lower self-esteem comes self-image problems. Self-image is becoming a major problem in today’s society because of the pressure that is put on both males and females to look a certain way in order to be portrayed as â€Å"beautiful†. At this point in the obese stage, it can cause the child to begin to go into a depressed state. Depression can have lifelong circumst ances such as poor health, poor living conditions, no motivation, and with these individuals tend to become obese. Along with depression, there are many other lifelong complications that can evolve from being obese from a young age. Self-image is a huge problem in obese children and can make an