Question

Current surge in numbers of overweight and obese individuals:

What are the causes? Expand answers beyond the obvious, utilize resources where resources are exploring why some people gain weight more easily beyond calories in and calories out.

What are the societal concerns? What are the pros and cons of political involvement such as incentives in the work place? Laws limiting beverages sweetened with sugar or HFCS to no more than a certain amount of ounces such as proposals in Seattle and NYC? What concerns do we have related to health? What are some researched lifestyle interventions to improve health and not weight in individuals?

Answer 1

People will be overweight when they eat more calories. eating too little, genetics, psychological factors, poor sleep, less physical activity, and other chronic disorders increase their weight. eating too many calories body get more energy and excess calories stored as fat in our body. eating low calories can decrease metabolism and cause loss of muscle mass. Obesity and weight gain are a public health problem. obesity preventive strategies and policies provide healthy choices and increasing physical activity and preventing sedentary lifestyle, bans of unhealthy foods, nutrition regulations, economic consideration, employment, social networking for strong motivation. food industry strategies to avoid sweetened beverages and promoting healthy products reduce overweight and obesity.healthful food options by providing incentives to private sectors that avoid diversity and increase cost on the proposed policy. making taxes for unhealthy foods decrease the consumption of unhealthy foods.
  The US focus on sales taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages that lower the prevalence and costs. cost-effectiveness preventive programs with or without incentives include long term behavior change with cost-effectiveness, but it has disadvantages in a prolonged period for contracts the program and causes less motivation to take action. According to new york city(NYC), health department survey links increase individual obesity. standard beverages policy from federal agency limits high-calorie bevegrages.US department of agriculture policy implemented smart snack standards in the school. Preventing chronic illness and lowering cholesterol, high blood pressure and risk factors, following a healthy lifestyle and food consumption can improve health. self-monitoring for weight, dietary changes, fitness followup, physical exercise, nutrition choices support the long term sustainability of lifestyle intervention that contribute to weight loss and reduce risk factors.