Childhood Obesity 1 Childhood Obesity in The United States of America Eng 122 Instructor Dougall - 1 - 1 1. Childhood The font needs to be 12pt Times New Roman for the entire document [Sarah Helmeid (TA)] Childhood Obesity 2 Childhood obesity posse’s significant health risks within our society today. This is something that affects all of us and people need to realize the detriment that childhood obesity posses in the United States. Within the United States childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years (CDC, 2010, pg.1). Over the past four decades, obesity rates have soared among children of all age groups, increasing nearly fivefold among those ages 6-11.Obesity is the result of consuming higher amounts of calories than
Be Supportive: When we least expect it, children are listening. Whether they seem mesmerized or distracted by the television, their iPods, or their cell phones our words, both positive and negative, stick. They will begin to model or try to become what they think you think of them. If your consistent message is "you are overweight and all you do is sit in front of the TV all day", then that is what they will eventually emulate. Positive reinforcement like, "You looked so fast running from the school bus to the front door today.
This problem still continues to this day. Right now I can see that as time passed by, most of my cousins aren’t very healthy. According to an article called Obesity by Scott Barbour in 2011, 1/3 of children are overweight or obese. I hope to change your opinion, and help you see that with an early start of healthy food choices in our schools,
Tommy Griffiths Professor Robin Muse PSY-3320 October 1, 2012 Childhood Obesity Why has childhood obesity become such an epidemic in today’s society? What can we as society do to bring awareness to childhood obesity and help educate and turn around this epidemic among us? Twenty-five percent of children today are considered overweight and of those twenty-five percent eleven percent are considered obese. So that means one out of every four children today that we encounter are considered overweight. This has become a huge issue in more developed countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom.
This report talked about the “Royal Society of Medicine” holding one-day conference covering childhood obesity. The thesis stamen of this report was the important work and initiatives that are currently taking place to try and reduce and reverse current obesity trends. Dr. Adshead gave the first presentation and was titled “childhood obesity delivering the strategy.” He talked about if you want to decrease the number of obese children under the age of 11 that we are going to have to do it as a whole within the population. He also talked about obese children are more often found in urban areas. The second presentation was given by Dr. Rachel Crowther; she talked about what the National Childhood Obesity Database is doing to prevent childhood obesity.
It is estimated that the number of overweight children has doubled in the last two to three decades. This article also associates obesity to mothers while the child is in utero and there should be emphasis placed on family behaviors proper diet after weaning of a child and making information available to help reduce childhood obesity. The Arthur recommends the following to decrease obesity at the prenatal stage he recommends good prenatal health and nutrition. In infancy it is said that mothers should breast feed until 6 months of age and do not give solid foods until a child is over six months and at that time introduce a diet that is well balanced and snacks that are low in calories. At the preschool age foods should be given that are healthy and keep children away from junk foods.
Http://www.huffingtonpost.com Revised September 15, 2012 Katz, David L.(August 2012) Childhood Obesity. Improving School Food: for the Good for Kids, with the help of kids. Volume 8, Issue 4. www.oneline.liebertpub.com Revised September 15,
New Changes to School Lunch Menus Ciera Jimerson Strayer University Dr. Jeff Kersh ENG115 August 19, 2012 One of the biggest epidemics in this country is children being overweight. As adults we are here to guide and educate children on the benefits, and how important it is to keep our bodies healthy. We have created a new menu for school lunches to ensure children are getting more fruits and vegetables. Changing the menus to school lunches will allow children to lead healthier lives and can also increase life expansion. Lack of nutrition can cause obesity, poor academic performance, and an increase in diseases.
Food distributed by the National School Lunch Program contains some of the same ingredients in fast food... Yet this is how the government continues to "help" feed millions of American school children. (Heron 11)" I believe that if you receive money from the U.S.D.A. that schools should invest in a kitchen to serve freshly salads, fruits, and vegetables or as a minimum take a step into having a healthier school diet and lunch. If students would have known that fast food ingredients were found in our school lunches.
With seventy percent of mothers returning to the workforce, the parents of obese children have a hard time regulating the food intake (HuffPost Health, 2010). Most cases of obesity in children can be pointed back to the parents being negligent, but there are relatively small amounts that are caused by a genetic defect. Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) affects1 in 15,000 babies that are born in the United States. PWS is the most common known genetic cause of life-threatening obesity in children. The constant feeling of being hungry is one on the typical symptoms that comes with PWS.. PWS is caused by the baby failing to receive active genes from a specific section of the father’s chromosome 15 (PWSAUSA, 2011).