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    Executive Summary on Childhood Obesity Wilma J. Barboza - RN‚ BSN February 3‚ 2013 Executive Summary on Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is one of the root causes affecting millions of young population today. The health effects related to Childhood Obesity are devastating. At least 70% of obese children between the age groups of 5 to 17 suffer from at least one cardiovascular disease (CDC – 2012). Obese children are prone to pre-diabetic conditions with continued risk of progressive

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    Childhood Obesity and Government Intervention Jaime Long ENG122: English Composition II January 30th‚ 2012 Childhood obesity has become a major concern as America’s youth continues to consume more food while exercising less. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention regarding Americans‚ “approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years are obese” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2011). Some members of the American Academy of Pediatrics

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    Obesity Veronica Ross GEN 499 Instructor Hamlin November 17‚ 2014 Obesity Topic: I have chosen the topic‚ obesity. “Obesity has been defined as the excessive accumulation of body fat occurring in children and people being more than 10 pounds over the weight for their height and body type” (The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry‚ 2011). I chose obesity because it has taken over a lot of our young children. Obesity in young children has become a big issue because children

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    Childhood obesity fast becoming a worldwide epidemic‚ and according to the Bureau of Statistics (cited in Browne 2012‚ p.20)‚ 23 per cent of children are overweight or obese in Australia. Browne (2012‚ p.20) suggests that by children being weighed regularly by their doctor‚ just as they were when they were babies and toddlers‚ it will help doctors and parents to closely monitor their weight. Although obesity is caused by an imbalance of the calories consumed with the output of energy through metabolism

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    English 100/009 Annotated bibliography- Child Obesity in America Taras‚ H.‚ Potts-Datema‚ W. (2005) Obesity and student performance at school. Journal of School Health‚ 75‚ 291-295. Retrieved October 4‚ 2005 from EBSCO (8) This Journal talks about obesity among school-aged children and academic outcomes. The authors reviewed published studies investigating obesityschool performance‚ and rates of student absenteeism. The book is recent (2005) so I feel that the information

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    Childhood Obesity: Prevention and Treatment ................. Nutrition 240 ..... 23 February 2011 Pizza‚ Oreos‚ M&Ms‚ Mountain Dew‚ and Kid Cuisine TV dinners are just a few of the many favorites among children today. Many children today have fallen victim of high calorie‚ non nutritional foods. Simple carbohydrates‚ whether children realize it or not‚ is highly part of their vocabulary and is setting them up for a lifetime of problems. These problems not

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    if you want to stick to the obesity argument you might want to think of arguments such as ’should the government be doing more to tackle the problem or is it up to the individual?’ or ’How is it people can allow themselves to get that far into bad health(obesity)?’ (might be more of a Psychology question though..) A good one for looking at arguments relating to the fast food industry is ’Super-Size me’ that documentary‚ that might give you some more ideas about arguments‚ to look into some of the

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    According to Gabriel V. Jasul‚ Interventions for a multifactorial condition such as obesity can be categorized according to so-called ecological levels‚ i.e.‚ downstream‚ upstream and midstream. Briefly‚ downstream factors involve individual decision-making that influences personal preferences and habits. Upstream factors‚ on the other hand‚ are at the community and national levels that may include infrastructure and community planning that may influence lifestyle (diet‚ physical activity) in the

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    Imagine a world where a school aged child can step out of their school and walk into a McDonalds. A world where soda companies make millions of dollars a year by placing soda machines in schools. A world where obesity is killing more people than smoking. What if I told you this world is not in your imagination but is the world we live in today? You Can’t Escape the Headlines. You Can’t Avoid the Facts. Childhood obesity has reached unbelievable heights. The future health of an entire generation

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    Psychological Effects of Childhood Obesity Leah McGrath ENG122: English Composition II Prof. Jonathan Berohn September 2‚ 2012 In recent years there have been more and more studies looking into the rise in childhood obesity. According to data released by the Centers for Disease Controle and Prevention in 2006 “Globally‚ 22 million children under the age of 5 years are overweight.” (Cornette‚ 2008) There are many ways to determine obesity in a child however for the purposes of this paper it will refer

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