Obesity Is Causing Diabetes

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If we look back into history obesity was not a problem among our ancestors. In fact they hardly had enough food to survive. So it should not be a surprise when hundreds of years later, and with an abundance of food, that there is a rise in the average weight of people. Along with the rise in weight, the increase in the number of diseases patients can be infected with, such as diabetes. Obesity and Diabetes affect many people in the US, but could obesity be causing diabetes?

Obesity is more common than people think. One question that may arise is what is obesity? Well, “Obesity, defined as a BMI of 30 or over, accounts for nearly 300,000 deaths in the U.S. each year” (“Harmful” n.pg.). This statistic is frightening. 300,000 people could still be alive if they watched what they ate. Because our society has unlimited amounts of food everyone feels the need to excessively eat. By overeating the public is creating even more problems for themselves. According to the article Obesity Risks, “The increased body weight itself causes problems that result in injury and diseases, including osteoarthritis and sleep apnea” (n.pg.). Sleep apnea is where your tongue has excess fat. When obese patients sleep their tongue will fall back, blocking the air that goes into their lungs causing them to stop breathing when they are sleeping. There is a cure to being obese it is weight loss.

Most doctors recommend their obese patients to lose weight or their health risks will continue to increase. Obesity can affect an array of people, from the young, to the middle aged, to the old. A person’s age does not matter. What matters is a person's eating habits. When a person eats too much their fat cells begin to grow. According to the article Obesity Risk...

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... their life and stay at a healthy weight, one should not have a problem with obesity or diabetes even with an abundance of food in our society.

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"Diabetes." University of Maryland Medical Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2013.

“Obesity Risks.” Obesity Society. N.p., n.d. Web. . Web. 24 Oct. 2013

Pi-Sunyer, F. X. "Weight Loss in Type 2 Diabetic Patients." Diabetes Care 28.6 (2005): 1526-527. American Diabetes Association. Web. 24 Oct. 2013.

Pollock, Christine A., and Jacqueline O. Favret. "Obesity and Diabetes." Obesity and Diabetes. LSU Heath Sciences Center, n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2013. .

Tayek, J. A. "Is Weight Loss a Cure for Type 2 Diabetes?" Diabetes Care 25.2 (2002): 397-98. American Diabetes Association. Web. 24 Oct. 2013.

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