Causes of Obesity in Adults

Running head: LITERATURE REVIEW ON OBESITY
Literature review on obesity
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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
Literature review:.......................................................................................................................2
Obesity and its economic impact:..........................................................................................2
Causes of obesity:..................................................................................................................2
Intervention recommendations:..............................................................................................3
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................3

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Introduction:
According to the recent statistical reports that has been shared, obesity rates has been
reported to be the highest in the USA as compared to the rest of the world. There are various
causes and risk factors that are pertaining to the alarming increase in the obesity statistics.
This assignment will put across a literature review on the obesity taking the assistance of the
articles used in the annotated bibliography.
Literature review:
Obesity and its economic impact:
As per the article by Balog et al. (2015), the impact of the economic disruption on
child obesity has been discussed. The authors have utilized the economic growth by the
Simon Szreter to explore the deleterious effect on the health of the children during the
industrial revolution. The article provides a comprehensive perspective that describes the
relation of the economic growth in the post-industrial United States and how it has taken
away the attention from a grave public health concern. The strength of the article had been
the comparing the data between the pre-industrial and post-industrial USA.
Causes of obesity:
On the other hand, the article by Barnas, Wunder II & Ball (2018) focussed on the
level of physical activity and child obesity epidemic and how each of the factors relate to the
aspects of childhood obesity epidemic in the USA. The results of the article had been
successful in discovering the fact that the childhood obesity is the primary cause of childhood
obesity in USA. Along with that the article also identified that obesity is also one of the most
significant causes to type 2 diabetes as well which is also affecting the economic burden of
the American taxpayers. On a similar note, the article by Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (2009), the article suggests that the health issue of being overweight contributes