Weight issues within young people.
Obesity levels in the UK have more than trebled in the last 30 years and, on current estimates, more than half the population could be obese by 2050.
The number of children aged 13 to 19 having weight loss surgery has risen from one a year in 2000 to 31 in 2009
In 2008 among children aged two to 15, more boys (32%) than girls (24%) met the recommendation to do an hour of activity every day (1).
Risks associated with being overweight.
Compared with a healthy weight man, an obese man is:
- five times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes
- three times more likely to develop cancer of the colon
- more than two and a half times more likely to develop high blood pressure – a major risk factor for stroke and heart disease (1)
An obese woman, compared with a healthy weight woman, is:
- almost 13 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes
- more than four times more likely to develop high blood pressure
- more than three times more likely to have a heart attack (1)
How industry of fitness has increase:
With the existence of technology it is right to say that most of the population have now became less and less healthier compared to a few years ago. In addition to all the technology which are trapping the humans at home, we also had a massive increase on fast foods production. The rate of obesity has grown massively since 1987. It is said that 72 million Americans, approximately one third of the population are clinically considered as obese. Also in UK,61.7% of the population are either overweight or obese.
Here are some more examples of obesity (1):
- UK: 24.9%
- Ireland: 24.5%
- Spain: 24.1%
- Portugal: 21.6%
- Germany: 21.3%
- Belgium: 19.1%
- Austria: 18.3%
- Italy: 17.2%
- Sweden: 16.6%
- France: 15.6%
With all the problems with obesity and being overweight fitness and weight loss has also grown rapidly, for some it even became an addiction. Fitness centers and industries started quite long time ago, since 1970s/80s. However back then fitness was not as important to us as it is now. Exercise those times would be led by running and aerobics. Between the years 1990s and 2000s gym memberships grew however it was not until a few years ago where gym has massively became a home for most people. Its growth number nearly doubling. At the start of the decade there were 16,938 clubs/gyms, by 2008 the number of clubs/gyms went up to 29,636 (1).
When weight lifting first became popular it was only used in Olympics as a sport. This was recognized as an Olympics sport in 1904 and became a regular Olympics sports from 1920. Back in those days weightlifting was not seen as a way to keep fit or bulking up, it was only an Olympics sport (2).
Now most of us do or have tried to do some sort of exercise which includes weightlifting. In other words most of us have tried to start doing gym in order to keep fit/healthy. However not everyone chooses to stay once they started. I mean there are 67% of people which have bought a gym membership and has never used it (3).
Although over half of the people with memberships do not use it we had an estimate of 19 billions memberships renewed in 2008 (3).
Gym is not always about keeping fit and looking good, sometimes it is all about exercising. A question we find hard to answer is whether people would much rather attend gym or just exercise outside.
Here is a youtube clip which may help:
Exercising outside can have its benefits such as not monthly fees, no waits to use the equipment, no need to travel far to exercise and best of all you can appreciate the nature. The problem with outside training is that it requires dedication and motivation. Because of this the results are not the same as in the gym. In the gym you have a trainer and other people who are there to push for you and motivate you to go to a point in which you can no longer exercise.
1- https://www.franchisehelp.com/industry-reports/fitness-industry-report/
2- http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Weightlifting101/History-of-Weightlifting
3- http://www.statisticbrain.com/gym-membership-statistics/
When weight lifting first became popular it was only used in Olympics as a sport. This was recognized as an Olympics sport in 1904 and became a regular Olympics sports from 1920. Back in those days weightlifting was not seen as a way to keep fit or bulking up, it was only an Olympics sport (2).
Now most of us do or have tried to do some sort of exercise which includes weightlifting. In other words most of us have tried to start doing gym in order to keep fit/healthy. However not everyone chooses to stay once they started. I mean there are 67% of people which have bought a gym membership and has never used it (3).
Although over half of the people with memberships do not use it we had an estimate of 19 billions memberships renewed in 2008 (3).
Gym is not always about keeping fit and looking good, sometimes it is all about exercising. A question we find hard to answer is whether people would much rather attend gym or just exercise outside.
Here is a youtube clip which may help:
Exercising outside can have its benefits such as not monthly fees, no waits to use the equipment, no need to travel far to exercise and best of all you can appreciate the nature. The problem with outside training is that it requires dedication and motivation. Because of this the results are not the same as in the gym. In the gym you have a trainer and other people who are there to push for you and motivate you to go to a point in which you can no longer exercise.
1- https://www.franchisehelp.com/industry-reports/fitness-industry-report/
2- http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Weightlifting101/History-of-Weightlifting
3- http://www.statisticbrain.com/gym-membership-statistics/
Luis,
ReplyDeleteThis is good secondary research and combines with your research and planning for the overall GC2 grade.
Merits achieved for research and presentation of research. Upload your recces, releases, risk assessment and production schedule for a merit for GC3 too.
EllieB