This awareness appears to be generalized from studies using stereotypes with similar negative responses regardless of gender, age, or own body status. Children can become aware of being obese at relatively low levels of fatness through mechanisms such as reference to photographs and name calling. The physical effects that obesity has on our children can lead to serious health issues both in childhood and continue through their adult years. Many studies have shown that children who are overweight before the age of eight years are at a much higher risk of serious illness such as diabetes, sleep apnea, respiratory diseases, and other serious disease. As parents, we need to take responsibility for our children’s health and lead by example.
Childhood Obesity Majority of children in today’s society are decreasing the time spent in physical activities as they are spending more time playing video games and watching TV. Due to their sedentary behavior they are increasing the level of excessive body fat to their weight (Whitker, Robert). This issue of childhood obesity has become an epidemic in America. The Colorado University research shows that within last couple of decades the obesity level among children and adolescent has doubled (P. Kendall). The increase in excessive body fat leads to serious health problems such as high blood pressure, type two diabetes, and other serious health risks (Estarbrooks, Paul).
Another research shows that one third of nation’s children are obese. There is other plenty reasons that show that child obesity in America is on the rise. As already mentioned above, growing number of fast food restaurants and lack of exercise on
Technology and Obesity Over the years, childhood obesity has become a widespread occurrence. According to the American Heart Association, about one in three American children is overweight. Not only does obesity result in excessive weight, but it also leads to the risk of diabetes, high cholesterol, physical inactivity, and high blood pressure. Many also suffer from depression and low self-confidence. Most families turn to technology to keep their children occupied without realizing that excessive consumption may harm their health.
Jordan Kendall ENC 1101 Professor Fallows 12-04-11 Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity has slowly become a very wide spread epidemic. In the last few years, we have seen that every 1 in 3 kids is either overweight or obese (kidshealth.com),this means because of the numerous fast food opportunities, certain ethnicities, and peoples every day sedentary life-style, in almost half a century we have tripled the rate of obesity in children. What exactly does the term obesity truthfully mean? In the chapter “Children” from the book Biographies of Disease: Obesity, It explains children measured to a certain specification, with BMI’s, Body Mass Index’s, in the 85th to 95th percentile, were labeled “At risk of becoming overweight”, and
students eat school lunches, only 6 percent of school lunch programs meet the requirements established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For example, the average sodium content was twice that recommended, and 80 percent of schools exceeded rules to keep fat to less than 30 percent of total calories. Studies have also shown that most of these selections are processed foods, high in fat and sugar. The findings of the American College of Cardiology by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, found that more than one in three middle school students who regularly eat school lunches are obese or overweight because of there high fat and sugar content. The findings also show that students who consume school lunches are more likely to have high LDL "bad'' cholesterol levels than kids who bring lunch from home.
“.. The center said 26 percent of schoolchildren are overweight” (p.10). What this quote says is that parents are not careful with their child eating habits. The number of overweight children in the United States has increased dramatically in recent years. Approximately ten percent of four and five year old children are overweight.
Even if such false advertisements are eliminated in the future many more battles are ahead. According the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, cereal companies average three to four unsupported health claims per box. Cereal companies spend $156 million per year marketing to children, and the average preschooler sees 642 cereal ads per year on television, almost all for cereals with little nutritional value (Deardoff,
A Rationale for the Development of Better Fitness and Nutrition in Schools There are an estimated three hundred million people worldwide that are over and another seven hundred and fifty million that are overweight due to poor nutritional habits and lack of physical activity. Presently, sixty percent or 97 million adults in the United States are overweight and obese and thirteen percent or nine million children. Over the past three decades the U.S. childhood obesity rate has more than doubled for preschoolers. West Virginia consistently ranks within the top three for obesity rates. Everyone is becoming unhealthier and more overweight each day by their lack of exercise and poor eating habits.
Childhood obesity is becoming a serious issue in American children today. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) found that African American and Mexican American adolescents ages 12-19 were more likely to be overweight, at 21 percent and 23 percent respectively, than non-Hispanic White adolescents (14 percent). In children 6-11 years old, 22 percent of Mexican American children were overweight, whereas 20 percent of African American children and 14 percent of non-Hispanic White children were overweight. What is childhood obesity specifically? Well according to the staff from Mayo Clinic childhood obesity is a serious medical condition that affects children and adolescents.