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Obesity Due to Lack of Cardio-Respiratory
There is an increasing trend occurring in the United States today. The sizes of food and belt buckles are growing at an enormous rate. "Do what tastes right", is becoming a common mentality of the American public. Obesity has now become part of one third of the populations' life. So why does is obesity still increasing at a tremendous rate?
In 1985, the International Obesity Task Force deemed the prevalence of obesity an epidemic.1 In society today about two thirds of people are overweight and one third are obese about fifteen percent of the teenagers are obese also.2 You don't need the International Obesity Task Force to tell you that obesity is an epidemic, you see it everyday. All you have to do is turn on the T.V. and you will see plenty of advertisements for fast food that everybody loves. Another factor is according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (1983 vs. 1998), more people today are spending time in office-related jobs......

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