Obesity

Body mass index (BMI). If a person’s BMI is over 30 they are considered obese. If your BMI is between 25%-29.9% you’re overweight. People need to aim for a healthy weight and a good BMI.

When you're obese you are not able to exercise and do normal daily things. Obesity is caused by eating too much junk food and not exercising. Obesity is a serious disease, that has claimed the lives of many old and young people.

Obesity is growing in America. 1/3 of people are obese in America. Evansville, Indiana is the most obese state in America. Obesity can cause health problems like heart attacks, heart disease, short breathe, shorter life expectancy and much more.

Heart attack Grill is a burger shop and is located in Phoenix, America. Buyers are waited on by scantily clad nurses. The menu serves Single, Double, Triple and even Quadruple Bypass Burger. They do sell fries called “flatliner fries.” These are fried in lard. To wash it all down you’re served a butter-fat shake. If you weigh 350 pounds you eat for free. The spokesperson was 29 years old when he passed away. After he passed away they got a new spokesperson to replace him.  

Obesity can be prevented.  With a healthy diet and exercise you  will lose weight. This will help you in the future to become a healthier person.

All about Eggs

In New Zealand 920,000,000 eggs are eaten every year.  The eggs are mostly produced by caged hens (Caged 89%, Free range 9%, Barn 2%) Depending on the chicken the egg can be white or brown. (Brown hens make brown eggs and white hens make white eggs).

Caged hens usually have 6 hens per cage. Cages are on an angle so that the eggs will roll down onto a conveyor belt. There is a computer system that takes the eggs and prepares them to go into the carts. Caged hens normally lose their feathers. Caged hens can’t lay eggs when they don’t have feathers. In this case, farmers sometimes starve the hens to make them lay eggs (forced moulting). Caged hens cannot do the following: dust bath, flap their wings, nest or run around like normal hens.

Free range hens are able to run, flap their wings, perch and dust bath unlike the caged hens.

They feed on grass and chicken feed. With 11 square metres per chicken, they have space to run free they get good exercise. At night they don’t close the doors so they are able to go out in the morning. When they lay their eggs they are all hand picked and put into the cartons.

Barn hens are able to perch, nest and flap their wings. They don’t have space to run around.  They get feed on chicken feed. They live in a barn and don’t go out. The eggs are hand picked and put into cartons. They last 21 days unrefrigerated.