Essay - Health Although the Author is Currently an Individual Who is...

Health

Although the author is currently an individual who is in relatively good physical shape, many people in society are not as lucky ***** regards to their health. Current fitness and nutritional habits maintained by the author help by providing a body that ***** a mean, lean health machine. However, the amount of time spent on maintaining a well-working ***** directly rel*****tes to how well that body responds to physical demands. The author ***** exercises at least three times weekly with a number of ***** **********.

The author's ***** habits, on the other hand, need improvement. Eating ********** foods, cutting the intake amount of snacks and diversifying the types of foods consumed by ***** author would certainly help in regards to the author's health. Additionally, increasing the amount of exercise on a daily ***** weekly basis ***** benefit the author's general ***** and provide specific benefits to the author as well. Those specific benefits can include lower blood pressure (lowering the risk of hypertension), less risk of diabetes, and ***** the author with more energy and confidence to achieve goals ***** objectives the ***** wishes to achieve. The author maintains a healthy weight that also improves general health. Though the author is d*****ciplined and motivated enough to keep a watchful eye on ***** issues, many citizens are not quite ***** perseverant. Especially worrisome is the fact ***** many adults, ***** children, are relatively unconcerned about their health, and many of these same individuals ***** not healthy and in ***** may be court*****g health hazards by being obese.

The Department ***** Health in New York s*****s the following stat*****tics in its 2005 annual report on the health of ***** citizens.

***** percentage of New ***** State adults who are overweight or obese increased from 42% in 1997 to 57% in 2002.

The percentage of obese ***** in New Y*****k State more than doubled from 10% in 1997 to 21% in 2002.

Obesity among children and adolescents has tripled over the past ***** decades.

Among children in grades K-5 from New York City, 24% ***** *****.

Among third grade children in upstate New York, 21% are obese.

29.5% of high school students ***** New York City, ***** *****% of high school students from ***** ***** York ***** ********** or are obese. (based on self-reported height and weight).

***** illnesses cost the United States an estimated $117 billion and New ***** State ***** than $6 billion. (NY Dept of Health 2005)

According to New York's Department ***** Health poor diet and physical inactivity ***** the second leading causes of preventable death in the ***** States. ***** two items can and should be addressed. Evidence ***** a 15% jump of overweight adult individuals in only a five-year period is evidence that action must be taken, especially consider*****g that the obese category of adult individuals more than ***** in that ***** time frame. Finding the time and energy to exercise as an adult can be much more difficult than when an individual is a teen*****ger