Action on Obesity.

Project Leader: You can be your own leader.
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Submitted By: LAYLAxLOVESxCAPSxLOCK
Submitted on: 03/11/2007

Goals: My goals towards this project is to get people to realize how wieght affects people both physically and mentally. Everyone should be aware of thier calorie intake, and make healthy eating choices that one day might spare you from long-term illnesses like diabeties, and heart faliure resulating in death. But obesity also leads to depression, which may also result to in many cases, teen suicide.

Objectives: Being only 13 years old, support may be rather difficult to find towards this project, mostly because i am a minor, and 'just another voice in the crowd'. I want my voice to be heard. A few months ago, i wieghted an astounding 166lbs, clearly obese for my hieght of 5 foot 3. I was unhappy with my self, and was tired and frustrated of being known as 'the fat girl' ect. I was tired of never having anything to where, and always eatingmore than my friends. I dieted, exercised, and have lost 33lbs so far. My eating habits changed from 5,000 calories a day, to only 800. Many people have called me anorexic, but when you look at my body, its not something i would easily be accused of being. What i want is to inform people of thier eating habits, but not to the point where it may lead to anorexia. I am NOT anorexic, and clinical data is there to support this. Obesity ranges from children under the age of 10, to the oldest people in the world. This project is to spread the word: STOP EATING CRAP, GET HEALTHY. You'll feel (and look) better. Do this for your own well-being, on your own behalf.

Causes: Body image, Teen suicide, Education, Life, Media, Mental Health, Obesity