Not many people understand the specific reasons for childhood obesity. Children whose body mass index is above the 85th percentile are considered obese. Three links to childhood obesity that people need to understand are household income‚ laziness‚ and psychological factors The first reason that greatly affects a child’s health is the lack of income in the household. Parents‚ who generally are listed in the poverty level‚ have a greater chance of having obese children. This is because fast food
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The Issue of Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is a demanding issue in the United States as "25% of children are overweight and 11% are obese". (Dehghan‚ Anwar) It has been shown that the amount of obese adolescents have doubled in the last two to three decades causing many serious health related issues in children. Type 2 diabetes and elevated blood pressure are some of the health issues that children are facing from being overweight. (Deckelbaum‚ Christine) These health issues are just proving
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Problem with Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. As a result‚ children are at increased risk for myriad preventable acute and chronic medical problems. Many of which are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In addition‚ childhood obesity has serious psychosocial consequences‚ such as low self-esteem‚ lower quality of life‚ and depression (KidsHealth). Many social and environmental factors have negatively influenced the physical
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Childhood Language Development Process Chart Summary Evaluation Modeling and Reinforcement Modeling is the act of a child or adult‚ imitating the actions of another person to learn new behaviors and information (McDevitt & Ormrod‚ 2013). The children or adult learn through observational means and then emulate these learned behaviors at later points in time to promote learning. Reinforcement is the act of providing support for positive behaviors that further development such as praising correct
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Causes of Childhood Obesity Childhood Obesity has become a growing problem with children today. Obesity now affects 17% of all children in the United States-triple the rate from just one generation ago (CDC). There are multiple reasons that more and more children are becoming obese. The decrease in physical activity‚ along with increased amounts of television‚ computers‚ and video games is one. Higher calorie and sugar intake is another reason for the rising numbers. Childhood obesity is
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Childhood Obesity There are 5 issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They’re a lack of jobs‚ obesity‚ diabetes‚ homelessness‚ and education. Each of these factors have the ability to trigger one another‚ as mentioned before‚ without the proper level of education on how to control issues like obesity it can later lead to several types of deadly diseases. Because there is a lack of education by parents‚ a low amount of funds being spent on children by the government and
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The question of whether childhood obesity is a problem or not will always stir up controversal opinions. The differing sides of the topic want to take action on the matter. Most of the people who are caused for the problem of rising childhood obesity is the fast food companies themselves. The government has countlessly tried to eliminate junk food from the schools‚ but does that really solve the problem? Junk food should not be banned in schools because children should have free choice of what to
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Childhood is socially construted‚ this means it is only a human concept and the only reason that ’childhood ’ exists is because society makes it that way. Over time childhood has changed as different norms and values over each century of life have been different and is still changing at present. Also in different places of the world there are different cultures and ethics so therefore their veiw of childhood will also be different. As Wagg (1992) states ‘Childhood is socially constructed. It is
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The amount of children that suffer from childhood obesity and overweight has grown within the past few decades. About every one in three children are considered either overweight or obese. Nicole Black‚ David W. Johnston‚ and Anna Peeters noticed that there have been a number of different studies conducted that suggest that childhood obesity can affect the child’s cognition level in a negative way. They looked at past research and decided to look for a causal relationship between obesity and cognition
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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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