Obesity can often lead to death due to the diseases that come as consequences. These diseases can include diabetes, cardiovascular disease, strokes and other chronic diseases. For example Reid Nuray is a teenager who ignored healthy eating and excersize. She now suffers from an illness called Insulin Resistance Syndrome. When food changes into sugars in the blood stream, a hormone named insulin (created by the pancreas) allows the sugars to enter the cells to use as energy. People who suffer from insulin resistance syndrome force the pancreas to produce more insulin, which exhausts the pancreas to the point where it stops creating insulin. Obesity can cause this because when you eat too much sugar and fat your body has to produce more insulin to turn all the sugar and fat into energy. When the pancreas stops producing enough insulin your blood sugar will rise ending with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a disease where the body doesn't use insulin appropriately causing glucose to build in the body to the point where your body cant take it. This then leads to heart disease, kidney failure or blindness. This is a way that obesity physically effects people but it can mentally affect someone as well.
Obesity lowers self-confidence in victims. For example in Miami, Florida there is a 600 pound mother named Dominique. She hasn't left her bed in 2 years. She eats in bed, sits on the bed all day and even has a shower on the bed. Dominique is 5 feet 5 inches tall and can't support her weight but even if she could she would not leave her house because she is afraid of the stigma attached to obesity. Dominique has hardly told anyone about her size due to these stigmas. People who are ignorant about the struggle obese people endure, say that they are lazy, self-indulgent and fully to blame for their weight. People who are obese are forced to see looks of shock and disgust targeted at them, rarely experience relationships and have difficulty to attain employment. Obese people are victim to both physical pain and mental abuse but it can be avoided.
Obesity is a lock that will only open with one key. That key is education. For example, the First Lady Michelle Obama has created a program called "Let's Move". "Let's Move" is a campaign based around the goal of stopping childhood obesity. It promotes a healthy life style by giving nutritious choices in food, ideas of how to be active and the benefits of it."Let's Move" was created to stop the today's generation from losing their life due to this fatal disease. For example in the video about the Dominique, it shows that she can't do anything due to her weight. "Let's Move" tries to stop this from happening to kids starting at an early age. Another campaign would be the "Feed Me Better" by Jamie Oliver. This campaign was focused on removing junk food from schools in the UK. Schools around the UK were selling sodas and chips and the dinner ladies (lunch ladies) were not motivated to cook healthy food due to the low amount of money they were paid and the kitchen space. Jamie Oliver went around school in Greenwich and taught the lunch ladies how to cook healthy and nutritious food. He removed all of the junk food forcing the children to eat healthy. Jamie educated he children and parents about what they were eating and the consequences it was causing. Michelle Obama and Jamie Oliver both made a difference in the lowering of the amount of obese children today. They both created big campaigns that cost money but you can do the same by just spreading the word.
Obesity is a trap that anyone can fall into. It pulls and pushes you until you give up and accept that your life is over. That is why we should fight to stop obesity. Schools should ban junk food so that there is not an alternative to healthy food It will stop children and adults alike from going through the suffering of feeling helpless, being at the verge of death and not knowing it and discrimination. Its your life, have an active life, have a healthy life, have a free life.
