In the United States today‚ obesity has become an enormous problem. In the last 3 decades‚ the number of people overweight has increased dramatically. A study done by the Centers of Disease Control showed that since 1980‚ one third of our adult population has become overweight. America is the richest but also the fattest nation in the world and our obese backsides are the butt of jokes in every other country (Klein 28). The 1980s were a time when Americans suddenly started going crazy over dieting
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from high-level competition through school‚ club or community organised programmes to spontaneous and informal physical activity. School is the ideal setting to promote physical activity and positive attitude towards regular physical activities. Children and adolescents from all social backgrounds are present on a regular basis for at least eleven years of their waking life. School‚ in general‚ has also a primary function as a place of learning. Early learning experiences are crucial to continuing
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can be very hard to do. Never have there have been so many teens and children not only overweight but obese. In some ways‚ it could be called the plague of the twenty- first century due to adolescents and teenagers indulging themselves in a plethora of food for every meal they have‚ therefore becoming overweight and morbidly obese. In the eighteen hundreds there was not a fast food place to go to unlike these days‚ so children were not obese like they are today.-(begin with a prepositional phrase)
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realise their child is fat when it might be obvious to other people‚ he says. According to studies‚ 75% of parents underestimated the size of an overweight child‚ while 50% underestimated the size of an obese child.
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In 2014‚ Maggie Valentine‚ a 12-year-old girl‚ suffers from obesity. Ever since she was eight years old‚ she has been overweight‚ and doctors told her she was another “statistic [of obesity]”. Although she exercises six days a week (swims for four days and walks her dog on the weekends)‚ she still finds it arduous to lose weight. Valentine further explains her stance by stating‚ "I would expect that since I’m eating healthy and exercising a lot‚ that I would be able to lose more weight than I am
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1 out of every 3 children in the United States is considered obese. That is about 25 million children in this great country of ours that are overweight. I think there are two main reasons why these 25 million children are overweight. Number one is that children aren’t eating the right foods‚ that is the main reason why there are a lot of obese children in the world today. The second reason is because these children aren’t getting enough exercise throughout the day which makes it even easier to become
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when someone eats more calories they burn. Being between twenty and twenty nine percent body mass index is considered overweight‚
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Georgetown University Health Policy Institute‚ Center for Children and Families: http://ccf.georgetown.edu/index/cms-filesystem-action?file=statistics/federal%20poverty%20guidelines.pdf Food without Thought:How US Farm Policy Contributes to Obesity. (n.d.). Retrieved June 11‚ 2011‚ from Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: www.iatp.org/iatp/factsheets.cfm?accountID=258&refID-89968 Freedom‚ T. C. (2005). 65 Percent of Americans Are Overweight or Obese. In T. C. Freedom‚ An Epidemic of Obesity
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of homelessness on children can be crippling. Learning disabilities are another effect that homeless children face. In fact‚ “homeless children are twice as likely to have a learning disability‚ than children in stable homes.” (“Faces of Homelessness”) These disabilities begin at birth‚ primarily due to poor health conditions and lack of special care‚ during the mother’s pregnancy or their poor nutrition after birth and during their early years. While‚ homelessness puts children of every age range
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required to raise parental recognition of childhood overweight and of related risk behaviours‚ and to provide parents with practical strategies to prevent unhealthy weight gain in their children. Weight and dieting: examining levels of weight In a study done by J.Wardle and F.Johnson regarding dieting and its relationship with levels of weight. J.Wardle and F.Johnson has found that most obese adults correctly perceived themselves as overweight‚ but many were not trying to lose weight‚ and only
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