the older generation. According to the law of nature‚ children are the ones who are supposed to lead to future world and ones for the continuity of next generation. In this 21st century‚ with new lifestyles including technology and more occupied society‚ younger children are increasingly becoming more vulnerable than older generation and one of the reason is obesity. The famous American musician Will. i . Am Claims‚ obesity as one of the factors that can actually knock America out cold‚ along with
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Schools Role in Childhood Obesity Schools play a large role in childhood obesity. The food and beverages they offer for lunch and snacks are not usually healthy. Schools need more activity time for students‚ such as sports during PE and more exercises. Not all students participate in the activities‚ they need something all students can do and enjoy. What role does school take in childhood obesity? School lunch should not offer such a variety of food; some schools have several lunch lines‚ however
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Childhood obesity could be examined using Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory (EST). In 1979‚ developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner developed the Ecological Systems Model to explain how a child’s direct and indirect interactions with the people‚ places and things around them connect and influence their lives (Bronfenbrenner‚ 1979). “Bronfenbrenner (1979) described the topology of the ecological environment as ‘a nested arrangement of structures‚ each contained within the next’
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Obesity claims the lives of one-third of adults and seventeen percent of children in the United States of America. (Solutions for Obesity). Those numbers are too high; but why are they higher than 185 other countries in the world? The United States is known around the world for being an obese country when people travel to the United States from other countries they are mind boggled by the portion sizes of American food. What foreigners also find crazy is how unhealthy America’s foods are; so why
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The epidemic of childhood obesity is quickly growing throughout the U.S. In just two decades‚ childhood obesity rates from ages 2 to 19 have tripled (NHANES 2011). The rates of obese kids from 6- to 11-years-old more than doubled from 7.0 percent to 17.5 percent and rates of obese teens (ages 12 to 19) quadrupled from 5 percent to 20.5 percent. (NHANES 2011). A few decades ago‚ the question of childhood obesity was not an issue to be argued. Our grandparents and parents never acquired the weight
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for Disease Control and Prevention‚ CDC‚ growth charts are used to assess Timothy’s body changes. The indicator used to assess overweight/obesity is if a person is within the 95th percentile or above‚ such as Timothy‚ they are obese and if they are 85th percentile to 94.9 percentile‚ they are overweight. Some consequences that can occur from childhood obesity is that it can project into later adulthood and can cause more harm when Timothy gets older on his body. Timothy could possibly end up having
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Childhood Depression: A Preventable Situation The National Survey on Drug Use and Health performed by SAMHSA in 2004 shows that in some areas as much as 10% of the overall population of the United States suffers from depression‚ and while depression can be caused by many things there is a segment of the population in which depression starts in their school years‚ and continues throughout their lives. This is a tragedy‚ however the larger tragedy is that this depression in most cases it is actually
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presentations. Yet in grade six‚ I was tasked with the assignment of composing an argumentative essay based the idea that “restaurants create obesity”. I had written a pro argument with various sub points including the proposition that restaurants encourage weight gain and subsequently diabetes. Even at my young age‚ I was very aware that my audience was my class mates‚ one of which had diabetes. I recall being so terrified that my essay would offend her and my classmates‚ that I nearly refused to present
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be prevented with more outside play. Can anyone think what it is? Childhood obesity. There are way too many kids in America that just sit at home and play video games all day. Or put too much junk food in their diet. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if kids actually got out and exercised. Take me for example‚ I play a decent amount of video games and I will be the first one to admit that I do not always eat the healthiest. But one thing that I do to stay healthy is exercise. Now I know I am not the
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Chris Blymiller English 2010 Sept. 24‚ 2011 Fast Food and Obesity In America It has been said that obesity in American has become an epidemic. What has caused this huge health issue in this great country? Many people believe fast food is to blame for America being obese. Is it really that simple? What could be some other possible reasons for our country being so obese compared to other countries? In this paper I hope to discuss these issues and show that fast food is solely to blame for this
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