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[Food loss and obesity]
INTRODUCTIO
Food among others is a very essential resource and in as much as many across the globe can
afford it, a significant number of others can barely feed themselves. Those who can easily
acquire the food appear somewhat reckless both in their eating habits and way of life. Most
often, people will prefer low-quality, cheap and calorie-dense foods to the healthy ones which
are rather expensive. The calorie-dense foods come with body complications such as obesity as
the body seems to store most of the food in form of fat under the skin. This coupled to the
sedentary lifestyle that most Americans put themselves into only make an obese-friendly
environment in the entire American country. About 1/3 of all edible parts of food produced
globally for human consumption go to waste annually (Gustavsson et al., 2011). A study by
SIWI noted that food losses and wastage could be as high as 50% from field to
fork ( Lundqvist, 2008). 3050% of all food produced (1.2 to 2 billion tons) is lost before being
consumed by man ( Fox, 2013)
Food in this case is the independent variably whose characteristics stretches from availability in
terms of cost, nutrient quality and the amount of calories it gives. Its presence is not affected by
external factors since it must be there in whatever cost. Obesity on the contrary is the dependent
variable. It is a lifestyle disease that only sets in depending on the food one eats and the life one
live. The entire American population was used as the control experiment as depending on the
lifestyles led and food ate, the population will either end up obese or not.
In the United States many stores and supermarkets usually dump food which is good enough to
be taken by the less fortunate in the society. Many dumpster divers which include the students

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April 24, 2017 Name: Institution: Date: [Food loss and obesity] April 24, 2017 [Food loss and obesity] INTRODUCTIO Food among others is a very essential resource and in as much as many across the globe can afford it, a significant number of others can barely feed themselves. Those who can easily acquire the food appear somewhat reckless both in their eating habits and way of life. Most often, people will prefer low-quality, cheap and calorie-dense foods to the healthy ones which are rather expensive. The calorie-dense foods come with body complications such as obesity as the body seems to store most of the food in form of fat under the skin. This coupled to the sedentary lifestyle that most Americans put themselves into only make an obese-friendly environment in the entire American country. About 1/3 of all edible parts of food produced globally for human consumption go to waste annually (Gustavsson et al., 2011). A study by SIWI noted that food losses and wastage could be as high as 50% from field to fork ( Lundqvist, 2008). 30‐50% of all food produced (1.2 to 2 billion tons) is lost before being consumed by man ( Fox, 2013) Food in this case is the independent variably whose characteristics stretches from availability in terms of cost, nutrient quality and the amount of calories it gives. Its presence is not affected by external factors since it must be there in whatever cost. Obesity on the contrary is the dependent variable. It is a lifestyle disease that only set ...
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