Obesity Prevention: Social Media Strategies for Awareness

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Obesity Prevention
Introduction
Obesity refers to a state that associates with having excess fat in the body as a result of
environment or genetic factors that are difficult to balance when dieting. Obesity is mostly
measured using a tool known as Body Mass Index (BMI), and obesity is categorized as having a
body mass index of 30 or even more. Obesity is a very dangers condition as it maximizes the
danger of developing related conditions for example hypertension, diabetes, high blood pressure
and sleep apnea (Kuczmarski & Flegel, 2000). A large population is suffering from obesity but
are unaware of it. Due to this reason of individuals being ignorant the causes, signs, and
prevention of obesity the nursing sector decides that using social media campaign can help to
create awareness. The paper, therefore, will expound more on the social media strategies that can
be implemented to inform a large group on the issue of obesity in a more elaborate manner.
Community health nursing diagnostic system.
The major social media that are the most effective to use in the campaign to create awareness to
a large mass of individual is the Facebook and Twitter. The critical content which will appear in
my two social media that have already mentioned is the community health nursing diagnostic
statement. The community health nursing diagnostic statement is a standardized statement about
the health of an individual, community as well as families (Chung, Gani, Gillman, Maher,
Brennan &Chan, 2018). As a result of plenty of fast food options in the United States, the
community health patterns depicts maximum consumption of fast food. These food preferences
correlate with the inevitable rise of the detrimental health problems such as obesity. Overweight
as well as obesity numbers are emerging at a higher rate in the United States and maximize the

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speed of getting many diseases and health problems. This obesity epidemic is an essential
concern for adults, children, and adolescents across the United States as indicated by the recent
research. According to the estimation, 97 million adults in the United States are overweight or
obese (Ludwig, 2018). These situations mostly increase their risk of suffering from the
dangerous disease like hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease,
stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and respiratory problems, and endometrial,
breast, prostate, and colon cancers. Therefore, the Facebook page shall contain all the risks that
associates with weight gain accompanied by the prevention measures like how to plan for the
diet.
Health inequity and disparity.
The state of health disparities and inequity in the United States has been one of the major areas
that most of the studies are focused towards. Health disparities are variations that exist within
specific populations in the United States. Due to a broad gap in health potential in the U.S
several unpleasant incidences such as mortality, the burden of disease obesity being one of them
and many other adverse health conditions. Several factors are believed to contribute to one's
ability to achieve optimal health which includes gender, sexual orientation, age, disability status,
socioeconomic status, and geographic location. Also, not to leave is the race and ethnicity of an
individual (Larson et al., 2018). The health disparities can stem to health, and therefore the
community should ensure that they find the possible solutions to this condition. The cities within
the United States are establishing and putting into work strategies that can help to minimize
health inequities (Andreae, Gabry, Goodrich, White, & Hall, 2018). Regularly these community
efforts go unaddressed in the media while stories of activities that are not beneficial as much like
blight, crime, or community unrest receive more attention. Hence the Twitter will contain all

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vital links indicating ways of dealing with inequity in health as well as how to solve the problem
of health disparities in as one of the dominant method of conveying the message on how to
prevent cancer.
Primary community and prevention resources.
To reverse the condition of an obesity epidemic, there is some practice that an individual
should do to support healthy living in many settings. Strategies to prevent obesity devised by
recent research study about obesity causative are the nutrition maintenance and physical activity.
In a more detailed manner is that community should maximize the availability of healthier food
and beverages as they plan their daily diet menu. They should also increase the accessibility of
the affordable foodstuffs and drinks that are likely to be used by the society at large (Whelton et
al., 2017). Bigger shops and supermarkets that contains a wide variety of material needed in the
diets should be put in place to avail the necessary food.
Underlying causes of obesity.
The consumption of sweetened food should also be discouraged because they are in a
good position of causing obesity. In addition to diet control, the physical part of the body should
also not be left behind. Lack of exercise causes obesity to be triggered and one ends up being
obese. Physical exercise helps people to Control weight, decrease cardiovascular disease,
minimize the risk for type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, reduce the risk of cancers,
strengthen bones and muscles as well as improving mental and mood (Roy, Ghosh, Sathain, &
Banerjee, 2018). The Social Media should be in a position to avail all this information on how to
prevent and do away with cancer.