Public Health Approach for Obesity: Arguments and Ways to Address the Issue

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Obesity denotes a condition where individual have excess body fats and BMI is 30.0 or
more (Medvedyuk, Ali and Raphael, 2018). It implies double burden of malnutrition and as per
present, more individuals are obese in comparison to underweight across Asia and sub-Saharan
Africa. In other words, it can be effectively said to be an epidemic that might worsen without any
kind of substantive changes related with environment. With the passage of time, it has been seen
that the toll of people inflicted with this disease or disorder is constantly increasing. This is
mainly taking place owing to the unhealthy eating habits, consumption of tobacco, maintenance
of ineffective or non proper diet plan, and so forth. The increasing number of cases has made the
government shift their focus towards the issue and take measures with the help of which this
disorder can be effectively controlled and then eradicated. Now, the current essay will illustrate
arguments related with public health approach for obesity and the ways through which issue can
be addressed in an appropriate manner.
MAIN BODY
The disorder that involves excessive body fat which enhances risks related with health
problems is denoted as obesity. It results by consuming more calories rather than the one those
are burned via normal daily activities and exercise. There was a time when this issue was only
present in high-income countries but now this is also experienced by low as well as middle
income countries across the world. BMI is regarded as a way for measuring body size (Karami
and et. al., 2018).
Now, abundant literature is present on the debate relating to the effectiveness of individual
approach and public health approach towards the reduction of obesity. In this relation, many of
the scholars have demonstrated arguments in favour of individual approach while others have
extended their support to the public health approach (Baranowski, Motil and Moreno, 2019).
With respect to this, it can be effectively stated that the current essay will be dealing with the
arguments that are dealing in extending the support for adopting a public health approach to deal
with the largely increasing cases of obesity across the globe, especially England. Public health
approach is basically referred to as the method that involves measurement of the problem,
determination of risk factors and exploring the ways through which these issues could be
addressed in an appropriate manner (Aggarwal and Jain, 2018). Along with this, the approach is
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