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    Throughout elementary school I was a shy individual. Consequently‚ I disliked my peers reading my literary work and I utterly despised class 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

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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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    examined her. He took one look at Ashley--42 inches‚ 71 pounds--and exclaimed‚ "This child’s obese!" Malin did some research‚ and she found a local pediatric-obesity clinic at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. There was a six-month waiting list. "Clearly‚ we weren’t the only ones with a problem‚" she says. Far from it. We are so far that three hundred

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    Influence on Childhood Obesity Today‚ there are many social problems that society is faced with. Among all of these problems‚ childhood obesity is one of them. Prevention of childhood obesity is solely the responsibility of the parents. This pressure occurs because of the societal stigmatization of overweight children. Today‚ about one in three American children are overweight or obese (“Flass”). Overweight is generally defined as having more body fat than is optimally healthy‚ and obesity itself

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    of Childhood Obesity                             Abstract While sitting at a mall‚ a person may notice the different sizes of people walking by. Generally speaking there are really tall people‚ short people‚ some with small waists and others with large waist. There are small children and large children. The children are what we will be focusing on throughout this paper. One of the growing problems in the United States is childhood obesity. What is the cause? Why is childhood obesity

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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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    Childhood obesity is said to be a modern epidemic in the developed world‚ the prevalence of which has never before been experienced. In medical terms obesity is defined as an abnormal accumulation of body fat‚ usually 20% or more over an individual’s ideal body weight. (WHO‚2016). It is a condition of excess body weight‚ caused by an imbalance between the amount of energy entering the body through food and drink and the amount leaving it through physical activity. Tackling obesity has become a public

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    The Combat against Childhood and Adolescent Obesity through Physical Education Pedro Arias Concordia College Spring 2016 The Combat against Childhood and Adolescent Obesity through Physical Education Obesity is a growing issue within the United States. It has become an epidemic. An issue so big our first lady Michelle Obama has taken interest and now advocates for it. As time goes by the issue of obesity does not get better but instead worsens as we fail to solve

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    Childhood Obesity: An Overview Dora Matagić‚ PO2 recent research evidence on a number of aspects of childhood obesity:  definition and prevalence  consequences  causes and prevention body mass index (BMI) as a means of defining obesity in children and adolescents it does matter to physical and psychological health there are adverse health risks for both the obese child and the adult who was obese as a child Introduction and aim Strategies to combat childhood obesity have been overtaken

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    Social Influences On Childhood Obesity Overweight and obese children are a major problem in the United States and the rates are unfortunately rising‚ especially in children. Obesity is the leading cause for health problems such as type 2 diabetes‚ high cholesterol‚ high blood pressure‚ coronary heart disease‚ gallstones‚ depression‚ anxiety‚ poor academic performance‚ and many other long-term health problems especially if obesity occurs early in life. I believe this is a social issue because

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