Details. Arrowroot is an easily digested starch extracted from the roots of the arrowroot plant, Maranta arundinacea. The starch is used as a thickener in many foods such as puddings and sauces, and is also used in cookies and other baked goods.The arrowroot plant is native to the tropics of South America.etails. Arrowroot is an easily digested starch extracted from the roots of the arrowroot plant, Maranta arundinacea. The starch is used as a thickener in many foods such as puddings and sauces, and is also used in cookies and other baked goods.
Equally as important as these physical side effects of obesity are the psychological consequences, which include the following: 1  Lowering of self-esteem often reinforced by teasing and bullying at school as well as a recurring barrage of the normal/ideal physique displayed by the media and entertainment industries.
Increased obesity rates had minor impacts on trends in ADL and IADL limitations and the fine motor index, but the magnitudes of obesity's unfavorable effects on lower-body physical function, measured by the mobility, large muscle, and gross motor indexes were comparable to or even exceeded the favorable effects of sociodemographic shifts.