Childhood Obesity is a Serious Issue Do you know of a child or teen that is obese? If so‚ do you think that childhood obesity is a serious issue? I think that childhood obesity is a serious issue‚ because it has some very negative effects on one’s physical and mental health; for example‚ depression and cardiovascular diseases. To try and make obesity in children and teens stop parents and other adults need to take action now because the numbers will keep rising till something is changed. Childhood
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Addressing the issue of childhood obesity Lenora Wallace ENG 122: English Composition II Instructor‚ Cicely Denean-Cobb February 14‚ 2011 Childhood obesity is increasing in different ethnic groups in both gender and all across the world. Let me start off by saying that childhood obesity has become a deadly disease in united state it important thing that should know firstly over other thing in life. Many parents are getting worried about their children being obese. First of all‚ combining
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la Educación Facultad de Historia‚ Geografía y Letras Departamento de Inglés Post-Intermediate Oral and Written Discourse Prof. Jesse Spencer María Teresa Acuña Vera Group 3 Childhood obesity and risk to children’s health A new epidemic has been appeared in the world in the last decades. Childhood obesity‚ as an epidemic‚ is a growing problem in many countries of the world‚ it has gained the full attention of health care professionals‚ health policy experts‚ children’s advocates‚ and parents
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Fast food and obesity Americans are heavier than ever before and‚ according to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) approximately 127 million adults in the U.S. are overweight‚ 60 million adults are obese‚ and 9 million adults are morbidly obese. Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that may have an adverse effect on health‚ leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems. Obesity increases the likelihood of various
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1 Childhood Obesity Childhood Obesity is an important issue because of the staggering proportions that this disease has reached in the past few years. Certain genetic factors that are paired with changing the lifestyles and culture has produced kids (and some adults) who are generally not as healthy as people were just a few decades ago. Widespread obesity has been the extreme result of these changes. I chose this topic because I have been working with children for the past two years
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ntroduction: Obesity has become a well known word in this generation. Obesity is the condition of being grossly fat or overweight(Dictionary). In the past thirty years‚ obesity rates have more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents(CDC). There is more than one factor that has caused this obesity epidemic. The intake of high calorie and high fat foods‚ the lack of exercise‚ hormone imbalance‚ genetics‚ environmental factors‚ and socioeconomic factors all play a role in why current
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CHILDHOOD OBESITY: PARENTS EDUCATION by Spencer Norman Exercise Science‚ Spring 2013‚ Indiana State University March 22‚ 2013 submitted to Ms. Caitlin Stuckey‚ Instructor English 305T – Technical Writing written for parents FOREWORD This paper is written to address the need for parents to understand how much they play a role in their children’s weight. The purpose is to bring to light the epidemic of childhood obesity and how this is only getting
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officials from the state of Ohio. The parents are being tried for medical neglect. The child weighed 218 pounds at 8 years old. According to the Center For Disease Control‚ in 2007‚ approximately 13 million American children and adolescents were obese. The effects of childhood obesity are both physical and emotional‚ not to mention preventable. According to the National Conference of State Legislation‚ obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile of the 2000 Centers
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Research question: why is obesity increasing in the UAE ? Obesity is a disease that hurt the patients and make a fat accumulates in the body . This led to decrease the age of the life expectancy and make other problems .In Bell (2013 June 12) ‚ Dr Abdulle co-author of the study and a research specialist at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at United Arab Emirates University says obesity could make diabetes and hypertension in the future.Al Junaibi et al(2013) obesity is a common health issue
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I was asked to create and answer questions about a virtual child. When I was told this was an assignment I thought “this should be easy”. Boy was I wrong! I found many things can affect the outcome of my child. If I am too strict or too easy‚ the child’s behavior will show this. Over time‚ this will also affect the child’s temperament. I have learned that some of my classmates’ virtual children are harder to get along with and require more discipline then others. I decided to just trust my instinct
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