Obesity and over weight

In a past edition, a local newspaper ran an article in the Health Matters column about obesity in the dorms that documented the increase of college age students who are over weight; and I am sure that most of you have heard about the Freshman 15 (the tendency for incoming students to gain ~15lbs during the first year of college).

With this and the chapter 12 in mind, please post your response as to what you believe is the reason for this tendency to gain weight in college and what can be done about it? We look forward to reading your ideas.

** Reading is chapter 9, 10 and 12

**both intext and reference page

**Please download the PDF and the title of the book is ;John P.J. Pinel. Biopsychology(10th edition), Pearson Education, Inc.

**250 to 500 words.

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Obesity and Overweight

In the recent past, there has been a lot of discussion about obesity and people becoming overweight. This has mainly been due to the realization that lifestyle diseases have been on the rise. Most of these diseases are caused by poor diets that are observed by people and lack of physical exercise which leads to accumulation of fat thereby making people obese or overweight.

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