When having
a new born baby, the parents want nothing more but for
him to come out healthy and strong. At the very beginning of
a child's life, he is weighed to make sure he or she is
healthy and strong. Some may be genetically underweight
or over weight depending on the parents. However, in
the United States as the children grow up, we start to see
a high percentage of the kids are dealing
with obesity. Many factors play a role in this
uprising epidemic. The side effects of obesity are terrifying for
anyone to go through child or adult, which is why we as parents
and individuals need to take care of our own
heath condition and life style to help prevent this epidemic.
While
growing up kids are all brought up differently, whether it be wealthy
or poor, no one
is raised the exact same. Parenting is a
domino effect, it is passed on down to each generation. Parents would often say,
"Well, that’s how I was raised…" or "When I was growing up, I
had to do this…" to justify their type of parenting that
they do with their children. Some parents raise their child in
sports harder than they would with academics or vice versa.
Another big factor that plays a role in causing obesity is
the type of food a family eats. At a young age, kid’s minds are
like a sponge, so if you begin creating bad habits
or routines a child would believe that those decisions that are
being done are fine and nothing is wrong with it. For example, some parents
smoke or drink and to them
it is an everyday thing, and when a
child growing up sees it they would be more
likely to continue that effect. Therefore, that is how obesity
has become the norm
for people, and they overlook it. In a
study, it was shown that, “more than one in three adults were considered to be
overweight” (National Institute of Diabetes).
As a young
child growing up, I was raised in a lower middle-class family.
My mother was a fulltime student and had two jobs, so she was
never home much. Most of my time was spent with my
grandmother, whether it be reading books or playing outside. The only
type of electronic devices in our house were a computer, TV, and a little
Game Boy that would only be able allowed to use for about only
an hour or two out of the day. My grandmother never liked it when I would
spend time on electronics. She had believed that the less I watch TV
the more room left in my head to store knowledge. Once a week, we would
go to the park to go fishing, riding bikes, or even just to
walk. Over time, after constantly going to the park
and outside, it had become something normal to
me, so much so that after getting home from school
going outside and playing was the highlight of my day.
My
whole family was raised around sports; therefore, sports
was heavily pushed on me at a young age. Most people, especially in nowadays,
would have thought that pushing me so hard would ultimately make me
lose interest. However, it only wanted me to get better to impress my
family. Since I had always done some type of physical activity, sports
had come easy to me. The only thing that I had to work on was
the fundamentals of each sport.
Since
I was involved in so many physical activities, obesity was
never an issue or even a thought in my mid. At the age of ten, my brother
John was born, and he was brought
up complete differently. When he was born, everything was
slowly beginning to change differently from the
schools, house, cars, and vacations. John had received pretty much
almost whatever he wanted. For Christmas, he was
given an iPad tablet as a gift. After that, he was
so used to getting
instant gratification that after a while of doing this he
would lose attention on anything that wouldn’t satisfy him instantly.
This really affected his life
tremendously, and he became lazy. This led to
a bad health style, and we have noticed he was putting
on a couple pounds because of it. Getting him to play
football was extremely hard, and we would have to almost force him to
go. As years began to press on, we as a family saw that over time John
would be able to break this habit of instant gratification
and into learn how to work hard for a better life style.
Now, there
are multiple steps that you could take to help lessen the
chances of you or your children being obese. One way is to always
stay physically active as much as you can. At the beginning set yourself up with reachable goals that you can work towards to achieve (How to do
cardio for fat loss). For instance walking or running a certain amount of a distance every time you run. It’s also
always a good habit to create a schedule for yourself to follow. On a calendar you could
put what days out of the week you are going to run and how far you are going to
run each of those days. Walking and running are one of the best ways to work out for losing
weight (1). While walking your body is using just about every single one of
your muscles. This allows your body to burn as much fat off as it can during
each work out.
Another
good thing to do is to go to your local gym and sign up. However, if you have
never really knew how to work out properly you should get a trainer to help
guide you or just research the information yourself on how to work out
properly. If you don’t do the necessary step during a workout chance are you
are going to injure yourself. Also, with a private trainer, he or she is there
to help you to achieve your overall personal goal. They are willing to sit down
and talk with you to find out what days out of the week they can get you into
the gym and for how long (The Education of a Personal Trainer). They do this in
order to figure out how to brake the work out into levels and will help guide
you through each step of the way. The people who train have a well-known amount
of knowledge to answer any questions you may have, and if they do not know it,
they would research it to come up with answer (1). After a couple of weeks of this, you
should begin to see a difference in how much easier each day of walking and working
out will get. When you are able
to reach your daily go of walking, you
should set new ones for you to achieve (1). Next never settle; always strive to
become better than what you were last week or last month. A reminder that
it isn’t going
to be easy; everyone is different and might take longer for others to
achieve their goals. Another good tip to keep in mind is don’t
worry about how everyone else looks or how well they are doing, only worry about you and your goals. Everyone
had to start somewhere, you can’t run
before you walk trust the process.
Now, working out and
walking a couple days out of the week will help and is a good start to begin.
However, one of the biggest role into losing weight is the type of food you eat
as well (Fat Burning Foods for Weight Loss). When eating “foods that contain
high amounts of fat and sugar, causes your body to develop more fat tissue” (1).
Maybe, if your younger and worked out while eating fast foods and still had a
good body. Now, if you are older right now, you know that isn’t the case anymore.
If you want to achieve weight loss you have to have self-control and
determination to eat right.
When going
grocery shopping, always look at the back of the product you are buying and see
how many calories, sugars, cholesterol, and the amount of sodium are inside the
food. If you haven’t been looking are this before you will be surprised how
many calories you are taking in with all the foods you get. Some people believe
that eating fruit is a good thing to do when on a diet, although not all fruits
are good for you to eat. Many of the fruits contain too much sugar almost as
much as chocolate (“Dr. Oz Explains How Some Fruit Could Be Bad for You”). Apricots are quite heavy; if you were to eat too many it could lead
to acid reflux (1). The unhealthiest part about the fruit is the core. It
contains amygdalin, which forms cyanide in the stomach (1). This is a potent
poison that may cause nausea or dizziness if consumed to many. A good fruit to
eat is strawberry’s, they contain fibers, vitamin C, lots of water and very
little sugar which helps fight cellulite. Also as melons and watermelons, are
high in water and low in sugar. Pears are not good for you; they can disrupt
the work of your insistence because of their powerful constipating effect.
Avocados have 227 Kcal in each serving, they can be compared as the something
as butter.
Try to stick with whole meats like fish, white
chicken meat, and egg whites, things of that such to eat. In addition, you want
to add in some greens into your meals (1). Any type of vegetables would help
with your digestive system. One step to help you out a lot with these meals is
meal prepping. Before the week begins start making all of the meals you are
going to eat for lunch or dinner. All you would have to do is warm it up, and it’s
good to go. Starting a diet like this is extremely hard and takes a lot of
self-control, but after you start to get the first couple of weeks out the way
it will start to get easier as you go along.
This
life style can get pretty overwhelming at times with all the dates to work out
and keeping up with all the calorie intake. It is not made for everyone; it’s
pretty much your second job. Five days out of the week you are working hard to
stay on track with all your goals to maintain at the end of the week and maybe
on the weekend you can have a cheat day, plus on top of your regular everyday
life. When you go out with friends to go have fun, you need to stay on top of
what you’re eating and drinking. You no longer have a typical American life
style by going out eating whatever you want whenever you want. If you think that one little piece of cake
wouldn’t hurt me your wrong. It most definitely can, but your body runs off of
what you feed it and what you put in is what you are going to get in return.
Today, in America, we are faced with a huge problem with
obesity in young and old ages. As we look at today’s kids in America, they feel
entitled to everything they see on TV. This development of instant
gratification has crippled them from being able to develop a drive to work hard
for what they get. leading them to laziness and an unhealthy life style. So,
start you kids of right with any type of physical activate and healthy habits
instead of just putting a tablet in front of them to self-entertain. Get up and
move and help this nation fight against obesity.
Worked Cited
“Dr.
Oz Explains How Some Fruit Could Be Bad for You”. Youtube. Feb 4, 2015.
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