Childhood Obesity
Common sense seems to dictate that fast food is often responsible for childhood obesity, as well as food provided by schools. I have always believed that parents take a bigger responsibility in the nutrition values that they provide for their children. They are the ones responsible for what their children eat because, they are the ones that are able to control their children and teach them what nourishments are good and which ones are not.
Parents take full control to what they buy at the grocery store. They are also the ones that introduce food to their children first. They have the option to choose healthy snacks such as: fruits that have been cut up, vegetables, or nutritious bars instead of fattening chips, cookies, or …show more content…
It is also said by health experts that parents do indeed take on full responsibility on whether their child is obese or not. “According to a recent poll of its members, 69 percent of doctors think parents are either completely or mostly to blame for the childhood obesity epidemic” (Pica 1). Parents are responsible for anything and everything that a child may do. As time seems to go, so does our advancements in today’s lifestyle more and more children begin to change too. The number of children that has gone obese is at an all time high, the problem did not exist before time until this century. Child obesity has been a huge threat today, according to The World Health Organization. Schools have been showing lack of physical activity, schools are paying more money to buy junk food machines, instead of using the money for more physical activities that children may contribute in. "Where children spend most of their waking hours, despite mounting evidence that children need to move” (Pica 1). Children need to have more movement throughout the day in order to stay active and get their daily exercise. If the problem of obesity is not taken care of within their adolescence, they may grow into their adulthood with the same problem with more solemn health issues. It is now the correct time to take action in their health, while they are still young. “It is the responsibility of everyone who lives and works with -- and makes decisions involving -- them. Parents, teachers, school administrators, policymakers…” (Pica 1). It is well written to show that children do not know what is best for them especially at such a young age and the adults that they look up to are the ones that are to direct them in the right path with their futures as well as what they consume in their everyday life. Children are too young to understand much yet, they are the begging stages of learning and it is up to the adults to
Common sense seems to dictate that fast food is often responsible for childhood obesity, as well as food provided by schools. I have always believed that parents take a bigger responsibility in the nutrition values that they provide for their children. They are the ones responsible for what their children eat because, they are the ones that are able to control their children and teach them what nourishments are good and which ones are not.
Parents take full control to what they buy at the grocery store. They are also the ones that introduce food to their children first. They have the option to choose healthy snacks such as: fruits that have been cut up, vegetables, or nutritious bars instead of fattening chips, cookies, or …show more content…
It is also said by health experts that parents do indeed take on full responsibility on whether their child is obese or not. “According to a recent poll of its members, 69 percent of doctors think parents are either completely or mostly to blame for the childhood obesity epidemic” (Pica 1). Parents are responsible for anything and everything that a child may do. As time seems to go, so does our advancements in today’s lifestyle more and more children begin to change too. The number of children that has gone obese is at an all time high, the problem did not exist before time until this century. Child obesity has been a huge threat today, according to The World Health Organization. Schools have been showing lack of physical activity, schools are paying more money to buy junk food machines, instead of using the money for more physical activities that children may contribute in. "Where children spend most of their waking hours, despite mounting evidence that children need to move” (Pica 1). Children need to have more movement throughout the day in order to stay active and get their daily exercise. If the problem of obesity is not taken care of within their adolescence, they may grow into their adulthood with the same problem with more solemn health issues. It is now the correct time to take action in their health, while they are still young. “It is the responsibility of everyone who lives and works with -- and makes decisions involving -- them. Parents, teachers, school administrators, policymakers…” (Pica 1). It is well written to show that children do not know what is best for them especially at such a young age and the adults that they look up to are the ones that are to direct them in the right path with their futures as well as what they consume in their everyday life. Children are too young to understand much yet, they are the begging stages of learning and it is up to the adults to