Obesity in the USA

We are Morgane, Pierre, Virginie and Laura, four French students of Jean Marie Le Bris, a French lycée in Douarnenez. We work like all the students in France on two subjects for what is called "TPE".

We have decided to do a study about the obesity in the United States because this subject looked very interesting and because it's a universal problem.

To find some information we used the internet, sociological books, reports and we exchanged mails with american students (we ask them different questions). We have chosen to do a website because it's easy to use, it's more visual and interesting to look at.

So here is our work :

We can see that obesity is a real problem in the USA one people for three is obese or overweight. Someone who is overweight has a "body mass index" between 25 and 30 and someone who is obese has a "body mass index" higher than 30. We can notice that children who are more concerned by obesity (in the usa) are immigrant children.

Obésity comes from different problems. Food is a big factor of obesity, of course.To nibble is a part of a new way of life of today. This new way of life comes from a new type of restaurants such as fast food restaurants, more people don't move like before, they don't practise a lot of physical activities because their comfort is more important. To eat is a way to escape from stress, from sadness. Obesity is more important in the working-class because they don't have a good salary and they can't take care of their health so much.

The consequences of obesity are different. Health can be destroyed but they are social conséquences too, obese people don't like their body, they have a negative image of themselves. But the look of other people isn't positive either.There is a lot of discrimination.

To fight against this obesity some people imagine different solutions. The main idea is to use the media, to do campains, to inform. The government can do things too like a tax in not healthy products but it's more difficult, some companies accept to change their methods. But some américan consummer association do not agree with these propositions because they think that it is the opposite to the individual freedom.

Obesity is not only an american problem, today it's increasing all ever the world. To fight against obesity il possible but it will take a long time.

http://obesity-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2013/09/constats.html