Obesity among adolescent affects people around the globe. Worldwide teens and children suffer from the obesity epidemic. The World Health Organization global strategy on diet, physical activity and health article had cited that, “current obesity levels range from below 5% in China, Japan and certain African nations, to over 75% in urban Samoa. But even in relatively low prevalence countries like China, rates are almost 20% in some cities” as the statistic shows how around the globe the level of obesity is growing in international cities. Also, cities in these countries are inhabited by people of lower class than wealthy people. Even by the percentage level of obesity is too high to be in state of normality, 75 percent in urban Samoa is not normal. In Samoa How can the percentage level of obesity exceed more 20 percent? According to Cynthia L. Ogden Ph. D, researcher of centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she makes it clear that obesity has increased “in 1999-2000 27.5% of men were obese and by 2009-2010 it was 35.5%” This is an issue across the globe by everyone in the world having this issue by some years there was a lower percentage and about 10 years passed it has raised to almost a 40% of population being obese.
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Ogden, Ph.D, C. (2012, January 17). Prevalence of Obesity in the United States, 2009–2010. Retrieved April 2, 2015, from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db82.htm