Summary Prewriting Theme: Health/Wellness Topic: Childhood Obesity Prevention Title: Childhood obesity‑an insight into preventive strategies Intended audience: The intended audience is parents that have obese children and parents that are concerned about their children’s health and welfare in the future. Writer’s background: Subhranshu Sekhar Kar‚ Rajani Dube1‚ Sitanshu Sekhar Kar All of the writers are medical doctors‚ which include Departments of Pediatrics‚ and Obstetrics and Gynecology‚ Medical
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I. Introduction/Statement of the Problem The medical definition for obesity is having too much body fat. Many people tend to get obesity and being overweight mixed up. Being obese is different from being overweight in that being overweight is the status of weighing too much. This weight can come from many places‚ such as muscle‚ bone‚ fat‚ and/or body water. While technically they don’t mean the same thing‚ they both‚ however‚ mean that a person’s weight is greater than what is considered healthy
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and disadvantage on decent nutrition to prevent childhood obesity. New nutritional programs are abounded within the schools to regulate foods under the new legislation. These laws and policies were passed by former first lady Michelle Obama‚ on “healthy eat in schools”‚ that every child and every school are eating healthy fruits and vegetables. Nevertheless‚ there are a few ways that healthy food preparation can reduce the threat of childhood obesity: providing schools with appropriate breakfasts
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another Side Essay Growing obesity rates among our adolescent population has become an increasing problem over the past decade. While pressure has been placed on government agencies to limit the amount of advertisements that adolescents are exposed to‚ these efforts might be futile due to constitutional limitations. The issue that is increasingly brought to the attention of the public is how to balance regulation of the informational environment to help reduce child obesity versus the First Amendment’s
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A few decades ago‚ the debate of childhood obesity was not a matter to be discussed. Our parents and grandparents never questioned the weight of their children‚ their friends’ children or any other child they came into contact with. Their children ate healthy foods from the table and played outside all day. The subject of childhood weight has changed quit a bit since those days. With the introduction of fast foods‚ Playstation and Xbox games‚ our kids live sedentary lives and therefore
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Childhood Obesity in America Jane Doe English Composition II Sarah Collins November 3‚ 2012 Abstract More and more American children are becoming overweight or obese. Years ago an elementary classroom may have one kid who was overweight but today that has drastically changed. We have a whole new generation of kids who are consuming much more “junk food” and eating fast food 3 or 4 nights a week and they are not as active as kids used to be. These kids are consuming things like Monster energy
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they should be provided with nutrition so our future prospers. Childhood obesity is most likely due to their surrounding environment‚ poor eating habit‚ and no physical activity. Parents should lead by example if they are in good health then make the effort to help your child improve. Childhood obesity has become an epidemic in America because most children underage are already overweight and obese. One of many reasons childhood obesity has become an epidemic in America is due to the advertisement
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Tashia King Overcoming Obesity with Busy Statistics shows that children with busy parents are obese –vs. – those that have stay at home parents. Children that are live at home with busy parents they are more likely to be obese because they do not have anyone at home to monitor them or limit the food that they eat. When children have parents that are not so busy‚ they have a chance being overweight because the parents can limit the foods and maybe allow the children to be more active to help
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Dear Ma’am/ Sir that takes part of the Childhood Obesity Foundation‚ It is apparent that you take part in an extremely important program‚ and I respect you for that. I am contacting you about the inquires of a exceedingly immense problem that is affecting our country (America) substantially‚ which is a huge factor in childhood obesity. The abundance of quality of healthy‚ nutritious school lunches supplied for students has taken a turn for the worst. Nutrition and health is tremendously
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Childhood obesity is an epidemic in the United States of America and continues to increase at an alarming rate. To eradicate this problem‚ children need to spend more time engaged in physical activity‚ instead of watching television. In this paper‚ evidence will show how television is having a negative impact on children‚ by way of commercialism and advertising. An overwhelming majority of commercials are geared toward children that entice them to make bad food choices. Today’s
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