It is assumed all families understand the necessity for nutrition and healthy habits, such as exercise, especially for growing children. A struggling family that is not allowed to buy white rice, white bread, or processed and already prepared foods gives those few a new perspective and direction for what should be consumed. Children who have to eat fruits and vegetables in school lunches will have a different outlook on what exactly a snack is. First Lady Obama has made a stance on childhood obesity, health and fitness as it pertains to our growing children, who will one day be adults. Practicing what she preaches, a fun fact is the white house garden is the first garden since World War II and Eleanor Roosevelts Victory Garden.
American Obesity: It’s the Parents’ Fault There is no question that fast food is one of the most available items in the United States and is not nutritious by any mean. Daniel Weintraub, author of an editorial found in The Sacramento Bee called “The Battle Against Fast Food Begins in the Home,” expresses an opinion that is represented by the title of his article. He claims that parents provide access for their children to this food and in turn teach them poor eating habits. Even author David Zinczenko asks, “What ever happened to personal responsibility?” Preventing obesity is in the hands of each individual and the poor eating habits instilled into the minds of the average American child by their parents. Fast food companies are running
Fast food offers convenience to people with busy lives and often time’s parents chose poor options for their children. “children who eat fast food tend to consume more total calories, drink less milk and eat fewer fruits and vegetables and less fiber than those who do not, according to a study published in the January 2004 issue of the medical journal Pediatrics,” (New York Times, (2010) article pg. 3) Children who consume fast food consume more calories and sugar and often times done get essential vitamins and minerals because there is an absence of fruits and vegetables in their
I think that income has no bearing on a parent’s personal decision for their children’s weight. In many instances obesity in children can be avoided but I believe it has a lot to do with heritage. Some parents are overweight themselves and have bad eating habits and that in fact can be a balance on their children. The government has instilled many programs such as WIC. This program is designed to help women provide a healthy meal for their children, one of the requirements on this program is that the mother can only purchase nutritious items such as low fat milk, a sugar free cereal.
Works Cited Abstract: This article talks mainly about the health risks of always eating poorly. Most of this poor dieting among children is what the schools are feeding them. It talks about a large movement towards removing junk food from schools and their vending machines as well. It talks about how dire implementing nutritional foods into schools and taking out unhealthy choices. This article believes that in order to maintain the children’s eating behaviors, they must first implement good eating behaviors in school.
As long as schools, and officials follow the guidelines required by the NSLP (National School Lunch Program) which was updated August 2012, they will continue to be funded. We tell children that the most important meal of the day is breakfast; well in actuality everything you eat is important to your body. Eating healthier foods gives us strength, and energy. A lack of energy can cause children to become lazy and slack off in school which leads to poor grades. Also an unhealthy body has a greater chance of getting sick versus a healthy body which can affect attendance in school.
With seventy percent of mothers returning to the workforce, the parents of obese children have a hard time regulating the food intake (HuffPost Health, 2010). Most cases of obesity in children can be pointed back to the parents being negligent, but there are relatively small amounts that are caused by a genetic defect. Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) affects1 in 15,000 babies that are born in the United States. PWS is the most common known genetic cause of life-threatening obesity in children. The constant feeling of being hungry is one on the typical symptoms that comes with PWS.. PWS is caused by the baby failing to receive active genes from a specific section of the father’s chromosome 15 (PWSAUSA, 2011).
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled since 1980, and today nearly one in three children are obese. The numbers are even higher in ethnic communities, where nearly 40% of the kids are obese. This is astonishing. What happened? Where did all these extra pounds come from?
CHILDHOOD OBESITY Asia Jackson ENGL 122 English Composition11 Jason Vinson December 17, 2012 Childhood obesity is an ongoing epidemic in the United States. Today in America every one and three children are obese. Obesity is defined as an excessively high amount of body fat in relation to lean body mass. Schwimmer, J.B., Burwinkle, T.M and Varni, J.W., (2003), Ch ildhood obesity is now the number 1 health concern among parents in the United States. Child obesity is a very serious matter.
Majority of the times parents aren’t home enough with their child to give them a well prepared and healthy meal, more times parents just came from work and order fast food. These parents need to be told that their children are at risk for poor organ functioning due to large amounts of fat inhibiting normal function, that the excess weight will place unnecessary strains on growing joints and limbs, and that the adipose tissue will have major effects on the metabolic and endocrine systems (Ruxton,