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Childhood Obesity Kristy Unkel Walden University Childhood obesity is a serious chronic medical condition that affects millions of children in our country. It is a rapidly growing public health concern in the United States. As obese children grow into adulthood, their risk for health problems such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes and hypertension also grows (“Overweight and obesity”, n.d.). Obesity is a difficult disease to manage since obese children are “predisposed to obesity for the rest of their lives” (“Overweight and obesity”, n.d.). According to the surgeon general, in the year 2000, “the total annual cost of obesity and complications in the United States was $117 billion and more than 300,000 Americans died from illnesses related to obesity” (“Overweight and obesity”, n.d.).
Detroit: Thomson / Gale. Davin, S., & Taylor, N. (2009). Comprehensive review of obesity and psychological considerations for treatment. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 14(6), 716-725. Keep moving.
Introduction One of the most challenging community and public health issues facing the United States today is childhood obesity. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the past thirty years overweight children in the US have more than double in children and tripled in adolescents (“Childhood obesity facts”, 2013). The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced similar concerns and reported nearly one third of children and adolescents are overweight, and committed to an $8 million dollar commitment aimed at reversing this epidemic by 2015. The Healthy People 2020 objectives have shown convincing science supporting a healthy and nutritional diet lifestyle. These objectives are focusing on the health risk
Statistics show that today, 2013, more americans can be classified as obese than ever before. This film raises the question of, “how well do we understand what we are consuming when we eat fast food?”. This question remains relevant today. NUTRITION CONCEPTSServing size, sugar consumption and caloric intake are three ideas emphasized in the film. As the title “SuperSize” says, the portions of food being per meal today are a factor in many health related concerns; the obesity epidemic and its impact on health concerns about hypertension (salt consumption), diabetes(sugar consumptions) and high cholesterol just to name a few.
The economic cost of supporting and increasingly overweight population with more diseases is another concern (U.S. obesity). Childhood obesity has not only prominent immediate effects but dangerous long-terms effects on children’s health and wellbeing. The effected children can more likely to have risk factor, cardiovascular disease, such a high cholesterol and high blood pressure. In a population based sample of 5 to 17 years old, 70% of obese youth had one risk factor for cardiovascular disease. (Journal of Pediatrics,
Effects of Obesity on the Cardiovascular System Abstract Background and Purpose: Across the United States over the last few decades, obesity has become one of the main health associated problems. Obesity is defined by the CDC as a person having a body mass index of 30 kg/m2. According to the CDC in 2010 about one third of the adolescent populations were obese. Adolescents that are obese are more likely to be obese as adults. Common health risks associated with obesity include hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesteremia, cardiomegaly, left ventricular hypertrophy, and coronary artery disease,.
Abstract According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) in the past twenty years there has been an increase in obesity in the United States. The CDC data base points out that about a third of the American population is suffering from obesity and seventeen percent or 12.5 million of the American children and adolescents are also suffering from obesity. [1] This research will address several questions including: what is obesity? Are there any medical conditions related to obesity? What is the leading cause of obesity in America?
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