Obesity And The Adult Population - 1774 Words

In this literature I am going to be discussing how obesity can be treated in the adult population. The reason why I’m going to discuss this is because according to the world health organisation (WHO, 2011) obesity is one of the highest risks to public health. According to Kolodziejczyk et al (2014) the national estimates in 2009 indicate that over 40% of young adults in the United States were overweight or obese. This shows that nearly half of the population in the United States are at risk. The reason why they are at risk is because being overweight is related to many health problems such as heart disease, breathing difficulties, type 2 diabetes, certain types of cancer, osteoarthritis and metal illnesses such as depression and anxiety†¦show more content†¦However too lose weight you would need to have an imbalance in energy intake and energy expenditure with energy expenditure exceeding energy intake. WHO (2011) say that â€Å"physical activity is any bodily movem ent produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure†. From this we can understand if you get the energy expenditure and energy intake the same a person would not lose ore gain weight and this is why PA is important in preventing obesity but to treat obesity there needs to have the imbalance in energy intake and energy expenditure. The following studies are short-term interventions that last for 6 months or below that have looked at the effects that exercise has on body weight and what diet and exercise have on body weight. When these studies have been compared to each other they have found that the combination between diet and exercise have the greatest impact on losing weight. For example, Hagen et al (1986) conducted a study on 48 males and 48 females who were obese and there ages being equal to 36.6 years. The aim of their study was to compare the effects of exercise and caloric restriction for a 12 weeks period. In this procedure they split the males into four groups and the females into four groups. These groups were the same for both males and females. The groups were a Diet and exercise group (DE), Diet group (D), exercise group (E) and the control group (C). Hagen et al (1986) found that there