Introduction

Overweight and obesity are increasing problems that lead to social

difficulties for people. The millennials and Generation z’s of today are

aware that beauty is now defined not by our inner personalities, but

our physical measures that create an impact of how society sees

people. According to the BBC news, millennials are now set as ‘ The

fattest generation ‘ today.

Philippines commissioned a study by ARoFIIn through The economic

Intelligence Unit and the study conducted that majority of 5.1

percent together with 23.6 Filipinos are overweight during the year

2014 with a sudden increase of 24 percent between the year 2010

and 2014..

Problem statement

Among these days, being overweight has become one of the major

problems in today’s society. People who are overweight not only

experienced body shaming, discrimination, bullying but the fact that

they don’t feel confident about themselves anymore. The reason

behind this, is because of how they became neglected about the

importance of healthy lifestyle without having enough information.

Objectives of the study

The purpose of this research is not only to let the people be aware of

the risks of being overweight but for them to change their lifestyle

into a healthy one. We conducted this research for better learning

and understanding of the term overweight, it’s bad effects and

solutions in order for the people to realize how important it is to take

care of our body.

Scope and delimitations

Our study is only limited to the junior Highschool students of the

Montessori de Sagrada Familia, grades 7 to 10. These students are

the ones who are most likely to become overweight, likely because of

how stressful students can be that they tend to stress eat a lot. Not
only that but they would help conduct our research about the

reasons behind overweightness among students.