Synthesis Essay “Sixteen-point nine percent of children and teens are obese” (Huffington Post). Childhood obesity is becoming a greater problem in today’s society because of the readily availability of foods‚ appealing commercials‚ and the children themselves. I think that food industries are out to make money without offering healthier alternatives or taking an interest on how it affects the children. With more sugary foods being developed‚ kids are more prone to wanting to have that food in their
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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 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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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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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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Although advertisers and the media have a huge impact on the issue of childhood obesity‚ the parents have the final call on what their children eat and don’t eat. It is the parents who give in to their children’s whining and give them what they want just to please them. Childhood obesity starts when the children are old enough to realize that they can get their way when they cry for something. It is the parents’ responsibility to lead by example and teach their children healthy eating habits at a
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Obesity is a problem that needs to be fixed. It’s a hard task to accomplish‚ but it’s possible we just need to get started. The main reason obesity is rising is because of the cheaply sold restaurant foods. My idea is to shut down unhealthy fast food restaurants‚ but that is obviously not possible. If unhealthy restaurants were eliminated‚ the economy would be in chaos. These businesses affect people horribly health wise‚ but economically it provides 3.7 million people jobs. Many people will be losing
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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‚ one of which had diabetes
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Outline I. Introduction A. (Opening Device): It is a huge problem in the American society today‚ something that can 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
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During early childhood‚ the brain retains the ability to re-learn sounds it has discarded‚ so young children typically learn new languages easily and without an accent. After about age 10‚ however‚ plasticity for this function is greatly diminished; therefore‚ most people find it difficult to learn to speak a foreign language as well as a native speaker if they only begin to learn it in adolescence or adulthood(Hart‚ B. & Risley‚ T. (1995) Pruning takes place throughout life but is far more common
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