Reducing Teenage Obesity with Diverse Exercise & Dieting Education

This paper discusses the causes of obesity and the role of healthy diets, physical activities, and exercise in reducing obesity in Australian teenagers. It also explores policies and strategies that can help prevent obesity.

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Reducing Teenage Obesity with Diverse Exercise & Dieting Education

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Contents
Abstract.......................................................................................................................................................3
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Methods to reduce obesity.........................................................................................................................3
Foods and healthy diets...........................................................................................................................3
Physical activities and exercise................................................................................................................4
Health promotion and education............................................................................................................4
Body mass index..........................................................................................................................................5
Results.........................................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................7
References...................................................................................................................................................8

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Abstract
Obesity is defined as excessive fat which presents many health risks and diseases in
a human's body. These types of diseases occur due to an imbalance of energy in a human's
body. Obesity or overweight raises many types of health risks such as type 2 disease,
diabetes, cancer, heart attacks, and cardiovascular diseases. This paper is explaining about
the cause of obesity, the role of exercise and healthy diets to prevent obesity in Teenage's,
and Teenage and different types of policies or strategies that reduce obesity in Australian
Teenage and individuals.
Introduction
Obesity is characterized as a health issue which is expanding quickly in Australia.
Obesity is happening in individuals, and kids because of numerous natural factors, for
example, the absence of physical exercises, eating of fast foods, and absence of exercise
(Cameron, Welborn, Zimmet, Dunstan, Owen, Salmon, & Shaw, 2003). There are numerous
illnesses happens because of obesity, for example, diabetes, blood tumour, heart assaults,
cancer, cardiovascular disease and different contaminations. According to the WHO,
obesity is defined as overweight or more body fat that impacts on human’s health. As
indicated by information from 2008, worldwide around 205 million men, and 297 million
women were obese because of overweight, and absence of physical activity. Australia, a
number of women are obese as compared to a number of men's. This paper is explaining
the role of healthy diets, physical activities, and exercise to reduce obesity in Australian
Teenagers.
Methods to reduce obesity
Foods and healthy diets
Healthy diets play an important role to reduce obesity in Teenage and it also
protects individuals from other diseases and infections. In 2011, Almost 10% of individuals
in Australia were obese due to lack of healthy diets, use of fast foods (Colagiuri, Lee,
Colagiuri, Magliano, Shaw, Zimmet, & Caterson, 2010). The main reason for obesity and

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other disease is an imbalance of energy in the human's body people eat fast foods and drink
a beverage which contributes to an imbalance of energy. Therefore healthy diets, nutrients
and healthy food help to reduce weight and obesity from individuals and also protect from
another chronic disease. According to Australian dietary healthy vegetables, fruits, fish, soft
water, and the use of low sugar can reduce overweight and obesity problems (Adams,
Mytton, White, & Monsivais, 2016).
Physical activities and exercise
Physical activities and exercise also play an important role in the prevention of
obesity and other diseases. Obesity is increased different types of human’s risks such as
type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart attacks and cardiovascular disease. In 2014, around 30% of
Teenage in Australia aged from 18 to 64 were not sufficiently active while almost 14% of
people were inactive (Gill, Baur, Bauman, Steinbeck, Storlien, Fiatarone Singh, & Caterson,
2009). The main reason for obesity and another disease in Teenage is lack of physical
activates, physical activities include sports, organized recreation, yoga, and incidental
activities. There are many benefits of exercise such as lose weight, reduce obesity, and
reduce other diseases such as cancer, heart attack, and blood pressure. The main advantage
of exercise is that it increases metabolism of the body (Olds, Tomkinson, Ferrar, & Maher,
2010). There are many exercises that reduce weight such as back, biceps, calves, chest,
shoulders, and triceps.
Health promotion and education
Health promotion is defined as a process which is used to improve health or people
and improve quality of life. Health promotion is also promoted physical activities and
healthy food which is used to reduce many diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, and
heart attacks (Huse, Hettiarachchi, Gearon, Nichols, Allender, & Peeters, 2018). The main
objective of health promotion is to improve the health of humans by providing healthy
dietary and exercise. It includes many events such as education, physical activities, healthy
diet, communication, and policies to prevent obesity. Education is an important part of
communication through which healthy diets, physical activities can be promoted. In
Australia, many schools promote healthy diets and physical activities by motivating

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students and also provide proper training regarding health risks such as obesity, and
overweight (Dao, Everard, Aron-Wisnewsky, Sokolovska, Prifti, Verger, & Dumas, 2016).
Body mass index
According to world health organization, there are many processes through which
obesity and overweight can be calculated but body mass index is a most common method
which is used by many organizations and communities (Thomas, Hyde, Karunaratne,
Herbert, & Komesaroff, 2008). According to National health services, BMI is divided into
three categories such as class-I, class-II, and class-III. Class-I consists of BMI range from 25
to 29, class-II consists of BMI range from 30 to 40, and class-III consist of BMI above 40.
The person with a BMI range of 25 to 29 is considered as overweight, people with BMI
between 30 and 40 are considered as obese and the person with above 40 BMI considered
as unhealthy obesity.
Figure: Proportion of obese kids whose aged between 2 to 17.
(Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2017)
Results
According to report of world health organization from 1980 to 2000 the rate of
overweight and obesity increased from around 10% to 17% in male and 8.6% to 19.5% in

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females who aged from 25 to 65. Generally, it is calculated that 501 million persons were
obese and 1.45 billion humans worldwide were obese. The rate of obesity has doubled to
65% of the total population in the world in which a number of obese people are more than
a number of healthy people and the main reason of this increment is lack of physical
activities. There are many environmental factors that lead to obesity such as lack of healthy
programmers, lack of equipment, and low gardens or parks (Walls, Magliano, Stevenson,
Backholer, Mannan, Shaw, & Peeters, 2012). There are many policies and strategies are
developed in Australia for prevention of obesity and overweight, for example, in Australia,
many organizations and communities provide training and education program regarding
obesity and another disease, Australian government reduces the use of sugar in all product
that helped to reduce obesity in Teenage. They also promote healthy diets, exercise, and
physical activities through education and teachers also motivate student’s parents to
reduce the use of fast food and beverages for Teenage. It is assumed that in 12 weeks
training program any Teenage whose age from 12 to 14 can reduce weight from 9 to 14 but
it depends upon height and weight of any person. According to given data after 12 weeks
training program post weight and post-BM, I have been calculated and we show that If any
person or child take 12 weeks training program regularly than it will reduce BMI and
weight at the end or 12th week.
Participan
t
Age
(yr
)
Height
(m)
Pre- Weight
(kg)
Pre-BMI (kg/h2) Post-
Weigh
t (kg)
Post-
BMI
(kg/h2)
Subject 1 12 1.41 64.8 32.6 57.8 29.1
Subject 2 14 1.64 85.0 31.6 75 27.9
Subject 3 14 1.56 81.5 33.5 71.5 29.4
Subject 4 13 1.49 74.2 33.4 66.2 29.8
Subject 5 12 1.46 65.0 30.5 59 27.7
Subject 6 12 1.48 66.6 30.4 58 26.5
Subject 7 14 1.72 94.7 32 86 29.1
Subject 8 13 1.57 77.2 31.3 69.2 28.1
Subject 9 14 1.63 90.9 34.2 78 29.4

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Subject 10 12 1.52 70.5 30.5 60 26
Participan
t
Age
(yr
)
Pre-Wall
pushups
(Number
in 30
seconds)
Post-Wall pushups
(Number in 30 seconds)
Pre-Squats
(number)
Post-
squats
Subject 1 12 14 18 6 9
Subject 2 14 19 22 7 10
Subject 3 14 16 20 5 9
Subject 4 13 15 19 5 10
Subject 5 12 20 26 6 11
Subject 6 12 15 21 6 12
Subject 7 14 17 20 4 8
Subject 8 13 18 22 5 9
Subject 9 14 16 19 4 8
Subject 10 12 18 21 6 11
Conclusion
Obesity or overweight is a most common problem for individuals and Teenage
which is increased rapidly in the last few years. There are mainly two factors that lead
obesity and overweight in Teenage such as lack of physical activities and unhealthy diets.
Through obesity, many health risks are increased such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart
attacks, cardiac diseases, and cardiovascular infections. This paper is studied about the
cause of obesity, the role of healthy diets, physical activities and exercise to reduce obesity.
To avoid these types' problem government and healthy society should improve policies,
and strategies regarding obesity, and also promote healthy diets and physical activities.
Teachers should motivate students and also provide a platform to reduce the use of fast
foods, and beverages which can reduce obesity and overweight.

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