has 320 calories and 90 grams of fat. Where’s the "healthy" in that. Now that Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. we need to re-evaluate the importance of healthy eating. By increasing awareness of the obesity epidemic in America we can begin to reverse the trend in weight gain among Americans. A. PREVIEW OF MAIN POINTS: 1. Americans continue to gain weight‚ increasing the number of obesity related deaths each year. 2. The availability and advertisement of fast food
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Childhood obesity is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child’s health or hauora/wellbeing. Due to the rising numbers of obesity in children and its many negative health effects‚ it is being recognized as a serious public health concern. According to WikiAnswers‚ %8.3 of NZ children are obese and %20 are overweight. Methods that determine body fat are difficult. The diagnosis of obesity is often based on BMI (Body Mass Index). The BMI is a proxy based on an individual’s weight
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| Childhood obesity is a disease that affects millions of children worldwide today. According to the Mayo Clinic‚ “Childhood obesity is a serious medical condition that affects children and adolescents. It occurs when a child is well above the normal weight for his or her age and height. Childhood obesity is particularly troubling because the extra pounds often start children on the path to health problems that were once confined to adults‚ such as diabetes‚ high blood pressure and high cholesterol
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Obesity: Strictly Societal or Positively Personal? “If two heads are better than one‚ then what about double chins? On that note‚ I’ll help myself to seconds.” –Jarod Kints Obesity is a whopping contributing factor to over 360‚000 deaths in the U.S each year. Unfortunately‚ that number continues to rise. Americans tend to blame everyone else for their condition‚ (Fast food‚ high fructose corn syrup‚ etc..) and are unable to take personal responsibility. So who is to blame for
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Study – Childhood Obesity Introduction The needs assessment of a community offers an accurate portrait of the community’s health to assist in the prioritization of prevention activities and build coalitions to make improvements and address existing problems (CDC‚ 2013). The needs assessment of the Vista County showed an economically poor county with six cities‚ largest being Point Mar‚ a port city with certain potential health issues. One of the health issues which is the focus of this paper is increasing
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Over the past 30 years childhood obesity has been increasing at an alarming rate. With working parents‚ technology‚ and processed foods; children are eating more and are less active then ever seen in the past. Obesity is hitting youth so hard that health experts warn that this generation of children will be the first to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents (Afterschool Alliance‚ 2006). This paper is intended to explain current issues surrounding childhood obesity‚ and touch on some of
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Advertisement and Childhood Obesity ENGL/101-B25 Would you feed your children lard? The answer for most all of us is “No Way”. Most parents can safely say that they want healthy choices for their children and would never want to give them something that is bad for them. However‚ with many of the foods on fast food menus this is not far from the truth. We have all heard the statement that childhood obesity is on the rise‚ and has been for quite some time now. We have seen the heartbreaking stories
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Rid Childhood Obesity? Childhood obesity is a pandemic that has reached worldwide distribution. A problem as rampant as this is having a direct negative correlation with education and the way kids learn in America. “More than one third of children and adolescents are overweight or obese” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). For the next generation to succeed and someday be responsible for many of the leadership roles that run this country‚ there needs to be immediate action. Childhood obesity
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Davis English 122 Instructor Richard Bair October 9‚ 2010 In this paper the researcher will address childhood obesity. People around the world may think childhood obesity can harm their children or help their kids‚ but in reality it works both ways. Healthy foods plays a big part in childhood obesity which when you see a child that is overweight you may think they are unhealthy but could just be genetics. This childhood obesity has become a worldwide epidemic base on unhealthy high caloric diet
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Health Issue Childhood obesity is a disease that had affected many kids and teenagers and should be taken very serious. It is generated when a child is extremely over the scale of the normal weight for his or her age range. Childhood obesity is really upsetting because when children start to gain extra weight at a young age‚ it has a negative impact on their wellbeing in the long run. For example; diabetes‚ hypertension and elevated cholesterol all can be a result of childhood obesity (CDC‚ 2015)
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