The second presentation was given by Dr. Rachel Crowther; she talked about what the National Childhood Obesity Database is doing to prevent childhood obesity. She spoke about the different ways to determine if your child is becoming obese. The third presentation was given by Dr. Bridges; he said that doctors need to be realistic with the goals that they set with their outpatients. He said if the goals aren’t realistic then the outpatient might become discouraged and might lose weight at that time but gain it right back in the long run. This article help me in all kinds of ways, I figured out that childhood obesity is a large issue in this day and age.
Ogden, C., & Carroll, M. (2010, June 04). Prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents: United States, trends 1963-1965 through 2007-2008. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_child_07_08/obesity_child_07_08.htm Ogden and Carroll conducted a study on obesity among children. Ogden and Carroll are both Doctor’s from the Division of Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys team. This study was cited in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Shopping at local farmers markets or buying certain items in bulk can drastically reduce spending. Parents can prepare healthy meals ahead of time and pre-package them for school and/or for dinner meals. It is also recommended that parents utilize online vitamin shops to save money. The U.S Department of Agriculture (2011) has recently come up with an “Eating on a Budget Plan,” called “The Three P’s.” This provides a great reference to parents with budget concerns. Encouraging children to exercise daily will also go a long way towards alleviating negative symptoms.
Shelly Ju-Hsing Lu Professor Littwin English 2-26 Feb 17th 2014 Obesity: An Annotated Bibliography Obesity has been a global problem in the last decades. Especially in America, the obesity problem became a major healthy concern. Not only adults but also children, obesity became a fast-growing epidemic in the world. In this paper, I will develop the causes, prevalent, prevention and more valuable information of obesity. Bellisari , Anna .
I believe that many teenagers do not have sufficient fibre in their diet, the older age group will be more health conscious of their weight and health, the lower range of target audience will be attracted by the golden star shaped cereal and its fun shape. Pest Power is used by all children within the target range so using an eye-catching and persuasive marketing campaign would be necessary in order to hook the buyer. Their parents would mostly agree that it is healthy; it is free of sugar and any artificial additives, whilst adding necessary vitamins naturally to a child’s diet. In addition it would make a good alternative for children
A compelling statement provided by the article is that “Children ages six and eleven are the ones who are gaining large amounts of Annotated Bibliography Tracy Pp.2 weight.” The Institute of Medicine is sending out the message for this group of children who are victims of obesity that have more than tripled in the last thirty years. In using these sources it starts to strengthen a voice on why childhood obesity should be fading. Relevant causes of childhood obesity will also help because after stating facts and causes of childhood obesity each cause one by one. Childhood obesity increases each year and I understand because after studying the trend and the causes if it is not stopped it will be a bigger epidemic than we can handle. Levine, Susan and Rob Stein, “Obesity Threatens a Generation”: Washington Post 17 May 2008 17 Nov 2008
The two scholarly sources analyzed are an article from Endocrine Today, "Engage the village' to reverse childhood obesity" and a journal publication from Education, "Physical activity and childhood obesity: strategies and solutions for schools and parents." Both sources provide many different and similar views on childhood obesity. Each article explains the main causes or observations in lifestyles resulting in child obesity. Each article presents many different views, but have very similarities. The magazine article from Endocrine Today presents a simple background to a few causes of
Why is there not a lot of research done on mental and physical conditions like Childhood Obesity in military families? In order to research the issue, the world needs to know that the issue exists. “When it comes to childhood health concerns, a new poll shows many adults agree on the top priorities they want to see the candidates address: childhood obesity.” (PR Newswire, 2012). Most of the Primary Research (Sole, 2010) is done, but there just needs to be Secondary Research (Sole 2010) like surveys, test, and analysis done on our children of military families any order to end this
The morality of the issue definitely helps to convince readers that the government holds the responsibility on obesity. In addition, their evidence also includes a comparison of the personal responsibility argument with obesity to the personal responsibility argument for Big Tobacco. This comparison works well as they state how “the nation tolerated personal-responsibility arguments from Big Tobacco for decades, with disastrous results” (Brownell and Nestle 525).
1.It cost $35 million for childhood obesity 2.End of the decade it had risen $127 million III. The Health Risk A) Due to natural occurring medical conditions like hypothyroidism syndrome. 1.Hypothyroidism is a condition characterized by abnormal low thyroid hormone production. (medicine net.com) 2.Any child that demonstrates these symptoms of obesity should be seen by a doctor. Conclusion: 1.