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What I Want To Know About My Topic

While researching my topic, I want to know in fighting obesity, are calories, carbohydrates, or fat grams the enemy? How many people in America are obese? You are what you eat, but what is in food that is so bad that it causes obesity? I know that you need to consume calories for energy, but how many calories are too much? Can you gain weight from not eating enough calories? How many carbohydrates should you take in daily? Are there healthy forms of carbohydrates or just sugar? Why do diabetics have to watch their carbohydrate intake, but not their calorie or fat gram intake? What makes your blood sugar raise? How many fat grams do you have to eat before it leads to weight gain or heart problems? What good comes out of eating fat grams? Why is this only a problem in the United States? Or is it slowly becoming a global issue?

What I Already Know About My Topic

What I know about the topic already is that is it not healthy to be obese. Being obese can raise your risk for may diseases such as heart attack, stroke, and diabetes. The United States is ranked the highest for obesity. The state that is ranked the highest is South Carolina. You take in calories and burn them off as energy, but when you consume too many calories they get stored in your fat cells. In a healthy diet there has to be fat grams consumed, if not it leads to problems in the long run. When you eat fat grams it helps for long term energy storage but too many can raise your risk of certain diseases. Carbohydrates are your fibers and sugars; sugars are short term energy but too much and you can also raise your risk for diseases and also raise your blood sugar. Diabetics have to be careful to control their carbohydrate intake.

Obesity: The Story Behind My Topic

I chose this topic because recently I stopped eating meat and started being more healthy. Before I eat anything I always look at the nutrition label and see what nutrition is in what I am eating.It is very easy for me to stay healthy as well as my family because we care about what we put into our bodies. Are people obese because that do not care? I always knew to stay away from food that are high in fat especially trans fat and try not to consume too many calories or sugars. I am a healthy person and try to help the people around me to be healthy as well. I always see commercials talking about diet plans and diet pills or surgery. It just made me think why are people fat? Is it because the eat too many calories? Too many fat grams? Or too many carbohydrates? Or is it a combination of all?