Running head: Childhood Obesity By: Kasey Ahern Framingham State University Kasey Ahern Mr. Daly Expository Writing 4/29/2011 Childhood Obesity During the last 30 years the number of overweight children has been on the rise. It is estimated that 18 percent of American children and adolescents are now dealing with the pressures of obesity. The average is estimated to one out of every five children. Children must deal with what pediatricians are now diagnosing as their greatest health concern
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children there are programs in your local community and local gyms that can help parents get their children’s lifestyle back on track. Revised Thesis Statement: Internet‚ video games‚ television‚ and lack of monitoring a child’s time equals childhood obesity‚ but with the help of programs and proper dieting we can get them back on track. I think that my thesis is an effective one I feel that the research that I would like to use is statistics from each state in America. Also I feel that using
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Childhood Obesity The days of children playing hide and seek outside are gone. Walking long distances to and from school‚ walking to a friend’s house to play on the weekends or walking to the bus stop to go to the mall with friends. It is rare to find a child carrying a bagged lunch to school‚ which would include a healthy lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches‚ an apple with cookies or chips being the unhealthiest part of the lunch. Child obesity is the result of poor nutrition at home
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addictions‚ and other psychological problems (Hill et al.‚ 2012). Moreover‚ it has been found that an anxious ambivalent personality‚ derivative of an abusive or neglectful childhood‚ can predict sexual addiction into adulthood. (Gunn et al.‚ 2011). By looking at supporting literature‚ it is evident that sexual abuse in childhood is correlated to sexual addiction later in life‚ particularly in anxious attachment individuals. Sexual abuse‚ such as any type of abuse‚ can be objectively defined‚ but
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Socialization as it relates to the Brofenbrenner model and the Humanistic theory Socialization is so uniquely simple‚ making it difficult to identify. Traditionally socialization has been identified under primary‚ secondary‚ and developmental socialization. These types of socialization are varying levels of the child’s environment. This goes along with Brofenbrenner’s model that the child grows and develops through different levels of his/her environment. These levels and depths of socialization
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Childhood memories never fade easily‚ and I long for the life I had as a child‚ as many others do. Nostalgia will always be a part of me‚ as my childhood was simply unforgettable and wonderful. When I was a child‚ I lived with my grandparents for a while‚ as my parents are both busy with work in their company. I still have a clear visual memory about my grandparents’ traditional Chinese house. The old wooden gate with black rings on both sides displays the typical Asian atmosphere. When I open the
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Childhood Disorders • Behavior disorders o Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) o Conduct Disorder o Oppositional Defiant Disorder • Separation/anxiety disorder • Elimination disorders o Enuresis o Encopresis • Disorders in cognitive‚ motor‚ and communication skills o Learning disorders Reading disorder (dyslexia) • Deficits in ability to read Mathematics disorder • Deficits in mathematics skills Disorder of written expression • Deficits in the ability to write
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Early childhood is a time of remarkable physical‚ cognitive‚ social and emotional development. Infants enter the world with a limited range of skills and abilities. Watching a child develop new motor‚ cognitive‚ language and social skills is a source of wonder for parents and caregivers. The study of human development is a rich and varied subject. We all have personal experience with development‚ but it is sometimes difficult to understand exactly how and why people grow‚ learn and change. Developmental
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RUNNING HEADER: CHILDHOOD OBESITY Abstract Twenty years ago there were just a hand full of children that were overweight‚ mostly because of a hormonal or genetic disorder (Johnson‚ 2005). Today a high rate‚ nearly 40 percent of children are overweight. There are so many questions to be answered and problems to be solved. Will schools actually start stepping up and helping parents with this problem? What about the affects on the children who have this problem? What should be done to help the children
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depressed as 6% of the world’s population has had an episode of severe depression like this. Suicide occurs in 15% of depressed people. Depression in school-age children may be one of the most overlooked and under treated psychological disorders of childhood‚ presenting a serious mental health problem. Depression in children has become an important issue in research due to its many emotional forms‚ and its relationship to self-destructive behaviors. Depressive disorders are of particular importance to
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