Question

Obesity is on the rise in the US and especially among children. Discuss the factors that contribute to this trend. It has been speculated that genetics play a key factor. How much of a role of genetics do you think can be attributed to obesity?

Answer 1

Obesity is the most common problem among children. There are many contributing factors to the development of childhood obesity. The contributing factors include diet, lack of exercise, psychological factors, family factors, etc.

Regular intake of high calorie, high fat, and eating of more junk food leads to gain weight of the child.

lack of exercise is a common contributing factor to the development of obesity.

Due to increased technologies, most of the children stop doing physical activities and start using new technologies to lead to the development of obesity.

Children born in obese families have a high chance of becoming obese. It is because of the adapt to their lifestyle and eating habit.  

For the psychological factors, due to the increase the stressful environment and try to cope up with these environments leads to development of obesity.

The genetic factors indirectly play important role in developing the obesity among the children. There are many diseases that are transmitted from parents to their children like diabetes millitus, thyroid problem, mendelian syndrome, down syndromes leads to the development of obesity among the children.