CHILDHOOD OBESITY BACKGROUND Obesity is one of the most significant current health promotion and disease prevention priorities in this country because it is a major contributor to many preventable causes of death. Obesity in children is an equally significant public health concern. In addition‚ there is evidence that the incidence of children who are overweight is increasing despite efforts to the contrary. Healthy People (2010) objective 19-3 call for the reduction of the percentage of children
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die each year because of different causes‚ but do the majority know obesity ranks second among causes of death? Even though obesity is a serious concern in society‚ the majority of people don’t care or are too busy to care about the health effect it caused. “Obesity is a genuine problem in America‚ but our nation debate on the subject has become nothing short of hysterical‚” (David Martosko‚ Center from consumer freedom) Obesity might be taken as a joke for most people but as it develops‚ the risk
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Companies Inducing Obesity In America America is known to be the most overweight country in the world. Early this year‚ the centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported‚ “… 35.7 percent of adults and 16.9 percent of children age 2 to 19 are obese” (Begley‚ news.yahoo.com). The main cause for this obesity epidemic is the fast food Americans on a weekly basis. The fats and sugars put into the food during processing are causing people to gain weight at a rapid pace. As a nation‚ America needs to step
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Obesity Rasmussen College Elise Pfliger Author Note This paper is being submitted on February 10‚ 2013‚ to Jaqueline Schultz EC120/EEC1734 Section 02 Health Safety and Nutrition at Rasmussen College by Elise Pfliger. Childhood obesity is a condition that negatively affects a child’s health or wellbeing. Childhood obesity can be easily remedied if a parent‚ caregiver and child all work together to teach the child the correct way to prepare
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Parents Are To Blame for Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity has become a growing problem in America. Although there are many contributing factors to overweight children‚ parents are usually to blame. The parents of children are the ones who provide food for them‚ so they have direct control of what their child is consuming. They are the ones who need to make sure their child maintains a healthy weight by eating right and taking part in physical activity. Obesity occurs when a person eats more
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Health and Wellness Term paper Obesity in children Obesity is a growing problem with children in the world. Obesity is not an issue that is just United States specific‚ many countries are dealing with overweight and obese children. “Obesity in children has more than doubled in the past 30 years and it is thought to continue to grow” (Whiteman). With obesity in children on the rise diseases and health issues is also rising. There are two reasons for these rises in obesity‚ and they are children do not
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Table of Contents Page Acknowledgements 4 Introduction 5 Literature Review 8 Data Collection Sources 12 Presentation of Findings 10 Interpretation on Findings 21 Discussion of Findings 24 Conclusion 26 Bibliography 28 Appendix 29 Acknowledgements I would like to thank The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Librarians who helped me in gathering information relevant to the topic as well as The Nation
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Mal J Nutr 10(1): 13-22‚ 2004 Childhood Obesity: Contributing Factors‚ Consequences and Intervention Sherina Mohd Sidik1 & Rozali Ahmad2 1 2 Department of Community Health‚ Faculty of Medicine and Health Science‚ Universiti Putra Malaysia‚ 43400 UPM Serdang‚ Selangor‚ Malaysia Ministry of Defence‚ Malaysia ABSTRACT Childhood obesity has been growing at an alarming rate and is the most common nutritional problem among children in developed as well as in developing countries. It is associated
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Abstract Schools may have an ethical obligation to help in the prevention of the increasing propensity toward childhood obesity. School programs can be implemented to improve the nutritional quality of students’ diets. Students spend approximately one third of their day in school and consume one to two meals there per day‚ therefore justifying the importance of the responsibility to advise dietary behaviors and influence healthy decisions. In consideration of these logical methods‚ the ethical
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top and be completely out of breath. In America today this is the reality that many children face. Obesity has become an epidemic in America‚ it has many contributing factors‚ and affects learning abilities but there are preventive manners for it. Although little is being done about obesity‚ its negative effect on children is caused by multitude of factors. The rising numbers of obese children has reached an alarming rate. With many Americans‚ “…‘obesity’…carries the connotation of being extremely
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