Your Ideas ( teen obesity)

I think that we should talk about Teen obesity because its a major part in our society. The percentage of teens that are overweight is increasing.Children and teens 6 to 19, 15 percent(almost 9 million) are overweight according to the 1999-2000 data, or triple what the proportion was in 1980. Obesity is a high amount of body fat that individuals are at least 20 percent heavier than their ideal body weight, "Overweight" is defined as any weight in excess of the ideal range. Obesity is a common eating disorder associated with adolescence. Obesity can weaking physical health and well being, it can also shorten your life expectancy. The cause of teen obesity is lack of physical activity combined with unhealthy eating habits. Most teen choose to sit infront of the computer or tv all day and text on their phones instead of working out for ten mintues a day, when really you could workout and watch tv at the same time. Activites that you can do to reduce teen obesity are; basketball, tennis, volleyball, swimming, and any ball sport. I also think that for gym we should invovle more ball sports then.