Lifespan Development Issues

Running Head: CURRENT ISSUES IN LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT Current Issues in Lifespan Development PSYC 500 17 December 2009 Current Issues in Lifespan Development Within the last two decades overweight children has been climbing in numbers. Many factors has cause the rising numbers of children obesity. Physical actives happen to be the main contribution among obese children. Today children do not want to involve in physical actives as in the past, but involved in technology actives. Physical actives such as riding bikes, playing outdoor sports and exercise are decreasing while watching television, playing video games and, surfing Internet has increase. Obesity children who weight are causing discomfort and joint pain afraid to complain because doctors
This is the last process of treatment and used when they are a serious medical condition and perform by a surgeon (American obesity Association, 2005). Children should be thought at an early age about health habit. Behavior should contain physical and nutritional actives about how to prevent obese. School and Family is the main source of providing behavior. Some healthy habit to plan is family outing, physical activity for the entire family and cut time watching television. Due to time children spend in school, school need to provide a nutritional and physical active environment. United State school does not implementing healthy ways. Youth Risk Behavior, carry out a test through center for Disease control and Prevention result reflex 16 percent of high school are overweight. School need to include in their core curriculum nutritional education for all age. School food should meet USDA standard provide a choice of vegetable and fruits, new ways to prepare food and new food. A survey show five and six grade would choose healthier food if a greater availability and publicity show healthy food (Baur, 2004) School lunch should contain a choice of all five food
Community organization and school need to provide suitable equipment, funding and supervision for actives that met the quality and interest of children. Physical activates coursed need to be developed to accommodate appropriate exercise and sport of interest such as aerobics, Karate and, gymnastics. Obesity among children is a growing problem among health actives and social actives that will grow to adulthood. Providing program on who to prevent and understanding the treatment for obesity children can help control obesity. Society need to educate more about childhood obesity and prevention ways. Once the society has this information they, might able to improve the health, wellbeing and, live of children. Reference American Obesity Association (May 2005). Washington, DC Obesity.org/subs/childhood/healthrisks.shtm Baur. Louise A. (2005). “The epidemic of childhood obesity: what role do school play in primary prevention?” nutrition and Diabetes Bouchard, Claude, et al (1990). “The response to long-term overfeeding in identical twins.” The New England journal of