Evaluate us health system

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The threat of obesity as a health problem has been the subject of debate in recent years owing to the continuous increase in obesity cases across the US and globally. The WHO defines obesity as “an excessive or abnormal accumulation of fat that endangers one’s health.” (WHO, 2018). In this regard, an obese person is one with “a BMI of 30 or more” while anyone with a BMI of less than 30 but above 25 is regarded as overweight (WHO, 2018). On the other hand, obesity among children can be defined as “a BMI at or above the 95th percentile” of a certain population in which the reference is made (Ogden and Flegal, 2010).
Obesity is a serious issue that needs the intervention of the US healthcare system. The condition increases an individual’s risk of getting type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, various cancers, and may lead to mortality. Coupled with this is the fact that obesity has been on the rise in the US in recent years owing to unrestricted access to various foods and poor lifestyles. According to Flegal et al. (1998), the prevalence of obesity from 1960 to 1994, adjusted for age moved over 10 points from 13% to 23%. This rise continued in the next ten years, where obesity prevalence rates moved to 32% from the previous 13% (Fleming, 2014). The prevalence rate for the years 2015-2016 were 18.55 among children and 39.855 among adults (Hales et al., 2017). Despite the threat and magnitude of the problem,…