Next the fat goes to the Subcutaneous, which is the skin and muscle. Then next place for storing fat in the body is the Upper Body, which is very similar to the Viscera. The Lower Body is the last place to store fat, which includes all of ones body beneath the stomach. The fat is distributed in the abdomen of the Upper Body, the abdominal depots of the Visceral, and between the skin, under the skin, or under muscles in the Subcutaneous. Fat in the Lower Body is deposited in the hips, buttocks, and thighs.
When researching, in almost every book written about obesity, there is a section on obesity and children. According to Low-Fat Living by Leslie and Robert Cooper, "Between the early 1960's and the late 1970's, childhood obesity increased 54 percent, and the problem continues to worsen" and that "one in four American children are overweight" (23). Many doctors blame technology for this increase. According to Felts, Tavasso, Chenier and Dunn, children have "fewer hours of strenuous exercise in physical education classes, and more hours spent viewing television on school days" (1). Newer, more realistic video games and computer games are also being blamed. As observed, Billy and Brian Rusiewicz, ages 9 and 10, spend nearly 25 hours a week either playing video games or computer games. This leaves very little time to exercise and eat healthy. They are now part of a statistic made by the previous authors; they are two children of 30% of children in the United States who are overweight (1).
Many Americans today blame their obesity on genetics, but is genetics really at fault? Koplan and Dietz believe, "Genes related to obesity are clearly not responsible for the epidemic of obesity because the gene pool in the United States did not change significantly"(441). John Jackson, author of Genetics and You agrees stating that your parents may have passed some unhealthy habits down, but "you can change those"(8).