1. Obesity in America
Busting at the Seams
By: Zachary Kortge

2. Obesity in America has become a
huge problem. It affects people of
all ages, including children.
Obesity causes many heart,
stroke, high blood pressure,
diabetes, cancer, gallbladder
disease and gallstones,
osteoarthritis, gout, and breathing
problems such as sleep apnea
and asthma.

3. In this presentation
I hope to raise
awareness for
obesity in America,
and for people and
children to get
healthy again.

4. This affects thousands of
people in the United States, it
happens because of high
portion size, processed food,
and artificial food. Heredity
also contributes to obesity. If
someone's parents are obese
they are more likely to pick up
on their bad eating and
exercise habits.

5. Map of obesity in America

6. In the above slide you can see that the
worst affected states in America are
Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
Statistics show that Mississippi is the
most obese state in the united states with
a average BMI (Body Mass Index) of 34.4.
BMI shows how much of your body is fat.

7. Nauru is the highest percentage of obese
people in the world with an alarming rate of
94.5%. While America has a rate of 74.1%.
This is still a harmful percentage and need
to be solved.

8. Some
solutions to
this problem
would be to
eat healthier,
exercise more,
reduce fat in
foods, and
make food
more organic
and less
processed.

9. My solution to this problem would
be to make healthier food and
improve processed food so it
doesn’t have as much fattening
additives. I would also like to raise
awareness of this problem and get
people motivated to come back from
their bad habits.

10. The impact of this problem
in the long term is many
unhealthy people with many
sicknesses from being
obese. Hospitals will be full
with obese patients and
more food is needed for
their expanded.

11. This problem was not always
this big. In 2007 the average
BMI was ten points lower than
it is now. This is a study from
and aid organization called
obesity.org.

12. Obesity is a huge problem, I hope this
problem will be solved because I don’t like
seeing people suffer from obesity. It is a
horrible problem for these people. I don’t
think this problem will be solved soon, I think
it will get worse looking at some of the recent
rises in obesity statistics.

13. Sources
•Dovepress.com
•Obesity.org
•Halls.md