Obesity is a major health issue in the United States. What environmental factors do you believe have contributed to obesity? What health concerns can result from obesity? How can advocates, policy makers, and others get individuals to adopt more healthy habits that could prevent obesity and health problems that stem from it? What commercial factors contribute to obesity and should the government be able to rule what private businesses and corporations do in this area?

Obesity is a major health issue in the United States. What environmental factors do you believe have contributed to obesity? What health concerns can result from obesity? How can advocates, policy makers, and others get individuals to adopt more healthy habits that could prevent obesity and health problems that stem from it? What commercial factors contribute to obesity and should the government be able to rule what private businesses and corporations do in this area?

Your responses should follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.). Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful. Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics. Use APA style for all citations. (Visit http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/index.aspx)

Discussion responses should be on topic, original, and contribute to the quality of the discussion by making frequent informed references to lesson materials. Initial Discussion responses should be around 100 words.

Make two or more responses to classmates that are thoughtful and advance the discussion. Responses to your classmates or instructor should be around 75 words.

For full credit, initial responses must be posted by Saturday of the unit week; comments must be posted by Tuesday. Refer to the Discussion Board grading rubric in the course Syllabus for more details.