101 23 May 2012 Children Obesity The problem of childhood obesity in the United States has grown considerably in recent years. Between 16 and 33 percent of children and adolescents are obese.From Environmental Health Perspectives website‚ the recent data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey estimate 17% of youths ages 2-19 years old to be overweight compare to just 5% a few decades ago(“Child obesity”). This data shows we should act urgently to rescue children because the percentage
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"Obesity is among the easiest medical conditions to recognize but the most difficult to treat" (A.A.C.A.P‚ 2008). You can see when a person is overweight or obese‚ it’s not something you can hide‚ but treating this condition is a lot harder. Changing your lifestyle is difficult‚ hence the reason so many Americans are obese. The United States was ranked 20th out of 92 in the countries with the highest childhood obesity for kids under 5. The USA has an obesity rate of 5.6 percent while; Albania takes
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October 13‚ 2010 Consumerism In Children Introduction When I was two years old my mother enrolled me in gymnastics. Gymnastics was a huge part of my life for the next four years. After moving up to be with the fourteen and fifteen year olds my mother realized that something was not right‚ because I was having body issues at the age of six. In the text “How Do Our Children Get So Caught Up In Consumerism” by Brian Swimme he addresses the issue of how deeply affected the children of America are due to consumerism
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however‚ have both a responsibility and duty‚ as set out in our organisation’s child protection procedures‚ to act in order that the appropriate agencies can investigate and take any necessary action to protect a child. Preventing child abuse is considered a high priority‚ and detailed laws and policies exist to address this issue. The Children Act 1989 ‘the welfare of the child is paramount’ it gave every child the right to protection from abuse and exploitation and the right to enquiries to safeguard
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Title Unit 3: Supporting Children E1 Identify FIVE (5) pieces of current legislation • Protection of Children Act 1999 (POCA) • E8:Human Act Rights 1998 • Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 • United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974(HASAWA) E2 Describe how each piece of legislation will influence working practices in the setting. • Protection of Children Act 1999 (POCA) The purpose of the act is to “create a system for identifying persons
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Marketing to Children: Restriction or Self-Regulation? Jack Lee Ren Jie 10418067 1. Introduction The average youth today views more than 3000 ads per day through the television‚ internet and reading magazines (Shifrin et al‚ 2006‚ p.2563). This results in the influence of children spending 155 billion dollars per year and having influence on the spending of another 25 billion of their parents spending (Shifrin et al‚ 2006‚ p.2563). Problem is‚ these companies are selling “junk” foods as their
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Research has shown that divorce is difficult for children. Divorce has been a social problem in the past and even in the present. It has affected many factors in a person’s life experiencing it. Customarily the children is the most affected‚ divorce can cause behavioral and development problems. Academically the children are less likely to finish school or a course in college and unsatisfied with own career in the future. Socially it would cause the children to be bullied in school and the inability to
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With the variety of programs available children are exposed to many factors concerning choice. These choices can lead to a wide array of results depending on the type of content which is viewed. Positive programming can promote the learning of valuable skills and knowledge to enable success in life‚ while negative programming may have diverse opposite effects. The contents of television programming affect the health‚ behaviors and learned life skills in children. First‚ a discussion of physical health
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Children and the Internet There are repercussions when children get on the internet‚ because the internet influences them in many ways. The internet has become a popular technology in the past years. People are able to play‚ work‚ listen to songs‚ videos‚ texting‚ chatting and even watch movies. All this technology can be harmful not only to adults but can be brutal to children by being so nieve to this technology. The internet has many characteristics‚ which involve hospitals‚ schools‚ banks and
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their concern towards children’s health status. Children nowadays are more likely to be obese‚ unhealthy and face problems on concentrating during class. Society belief that the major reason that affected children’s health status is them taking too much of junk food‚ sales of junk food in school canteens made children easily access to junk food as they can get them in school canteens. Sales of junk food in school canteens should be banned as these foods contain low nutrition and unhealthy additives
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