Speach on obesity

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Hello, my name is Steffan Richards and I am here today to talk about why I believe that obese people should be made to lose weight.

   You are probably wondering what classifies a person as obese. It is all decided by your Body Mass Index or probably best heard of as simply BMI which is a simple formula that compares height and weight to give an estimated amount of fat in your body. If you have a BMI between 25kg per meter squared and 30kg per meter squared you are considered to be overweight. But if you have a BMI of over 30 you are obese.

    Unfortunately the word obese is becoming more common. Currently 25% of adults and 30% of children are considered to be obese in the UK which costs the NHS approximately one billion pounds a year according to figures released last year. If attitudes towards obesity don’t change, by the year 2050 it is expected that a massive 50% percent of UK’s population will be obese, a figure that will see the costs of obesity rise to forty nine billion pounds.

    You are all probably asking yourselves what makes obesity so costly. Well, the answer is that obesity causes so many diseases which all need to be cured. Diseases such as; Cancer, Diabetes, Breathing problems, High cholesterol and High blood pressures. As consequence high fees must be paid by the NHS to pay for these expensive cures.

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    While portions of food have something to do with obesity it is also what we eat that is harmful. According to an internet source the average number of calories taken in by an obese person is three thousand five hundred, where the UK department of health recommend an intake of two thousand five hundred calories for men and two thousand calories for women. While thinner people might take exercise weekly most obese people admit that they don’t make an effort to do any exercise. According to the BBC three in four obese people admit to not taking part ...

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