Discuss the risk factors for adolescent obesity.
What will be an ideal response?
Both heredity and environmental factors are involved in obesity. Some individuals inherit a tendency to be overweight. Only 10 percent of children who do not have obese parents become obese themselves, whereas 40 percent of children who become obese have one obese parent, and 70 percent of children who become obese have two obese parents. Identical twins, even when they are reared apart, have similar weights. Strong evidence of the environment's role in obesity is the doubling of the rate of obesity in the U.S. since 1900, as well as the significant increase in adolescent obesity since the 1960s. The increase is likely due to the greater availability of food, use of energy-saving devices, and declining physical activity. Further, increases in screen time in adolescence are associated with adolescent overweight and obesity.
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