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Obesity, the disease of the American 

children.

A very risky situation in your childhood, is to have a bad nutrition. Because if you don’t take care of it, you can get a very bad disease called obesity. 

 

Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children, and more than tripled in adolescents in the last 30 years. A huge reason of this changes is because of the bad nutrition at schools.

Also the percentage of people with obesity has increased to an 18 % in children and also in adolescents. And also a more than a third of the kids in America ( between 5 and 17 years old) has overweight.

Overweight is defined as having excess of body weight for a particular height. This excess can be from fat, muscle, bone, water or a combination of them.

These two diseases are the result of “calorie imbalance” or a not balanced diet; this means that you expend too few calories compared with the amount of the ones that you consume.

Well, great problems with these diseases are for example that youth are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure and also pre-diabetes the problem is that if it’s not treated it may end with diabetes.

Concluding, we can say that if you don’t have good eating habits, your lifestyle can change very badly. So, you must always have a well-balanced diet and always exercising.