Intro Paragraph Example 6

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2008 childhood obesity report estimated seventeen percent of adolescents were overweight or obese; adult obesity was estimated between twenty and thirty percent.[1] The CDC also reports percentage increases, both adult and child, since 2008. Many researchers have addressed the growing concern, rooting out potential causes to enable future treatment and prevention. Since the investigation’s beginning, food quality, genetic predisposition, increasing portion sizes, and sedentary activities such as television and video gaming have each received blame regarding what is now termed the “epidemic’s” emergence. Many Americans do not get enough daily physical activity and thus, the calories they consume outweigh those they burn. Sedentary activities like watching television exacerbate the situation.[2] Katherine Jones, Jennifer Otten, Rachel Johnson, and Jean Harvey-Berino recently conducted a study to determine whether or not having a bedroom television set negatively affects the owner’s health. Their study furthers existing research concerning television’s contribution to poor health because they discovered bedroom televisions do not seem to augment the existing health risks of sedentary activities.