Oday Alsoltani
Prof. Meegan
ESL 400
Assignment #3
12/04/2014
Prompt: Childhood Obesity; who are to Blame?
“Childhood Obesity”
Who is responsible for childhood obesity? For the past 30 years, childhood obesity has increased rapidly. Children obesity between the ages of 6-11 years old has increased by 7% in 1980 to over 17% in 2012. The difference between overweight and obese is that overweight is the percentage of fat, muscle, bone, water, or all of that in body weight for each particular height, while the definition of obesity is the highest percent of fat in the body (Childhood Obesity Facts par. 1). The problem for children of who is obese is not just a short-term effect but unfortunately it has a long-term effect as well. There are many …show more content…
Today’s children are the future of the country and its hope for a better future. So it is parents’ responsibility in the first place to change the eating habits for their children and the school responsibility as well to teach them the good nutrition that will benefit them as well as the choices for their lunch. As early as 6-11 years old, parents can start changing the unhealthy eating habits and provide healthier choices to eliminate the chances of getting obese (Costley par.1). The prevention of becoming obese starts by changing the lifestyle habit and changing the child's diet to a healthier one, which can lower their risk of becoming obese and have health problems in the future (Childhood Obesity Facts." Par 7-8-9). Each and everyone surrounding the child's life has part of the responsibility to help children to be healthier and live better, so it is very important that communities have the awareness of how big and serious is the problem of childhood obesity so that all can participate to put an end to it (Costley …show more content…
Technology as wonderful as it sounds and all the technological devices that swept our worlds and children’s worlds and the excessive use of Ipads, tablets, video games, computers and televisions have limited the outside playing time. Children spend hours sitting playing on their electronic devices forgetting about the outside world all what they care about is staying where they are and continue to “play”. "Our results provide evidence that physical activity plays a substantial and independent part in the rate of gain in BMI during adolescence." Many scientific studies have shown the relation between lack of activity and childhood obesity and the level of physical activity can be one of the prime reasons of obesity from childhood to adolescent (Science Letter par
Prof. Meegan
ESL 400
Assignment #3
12/04/2014
Prompt: Childhood Obesity; who are to Blame?
“Childhood Obesity”
Who is responsible for childhood obesity? For the past 30 years, childhood obesity has increased rapidly. Children obesity between the ages of 6-11 years old has increased by 7% in 1980 to over 17% in 2012. The difference between overweight and obese is that overweight is the percentage of fat, muscle, bone, water, or all of that in body weight for each particular height, while the definition of obesity is the highest percent of fat in the body (Childhood Obesity Facts par. 1). The problem for children of who is obese is not just a short-term effect but unfortunately it has a long-term effect as well. There are many …show more content…
Today’s children are the future of the country and its hope for a better future. So it is parents’ responsibility in the first place to change the eating habits for their children and the school responsibility as well to teach them the good nutrition that will benefit them as well as the choices for their lunch. As early as 6-11 years old, parents can start changing the unhealthy eating habits and provide healthier choices to eliminate the chances of getting obese (Costley par.1). The prevention of becoming obese starts by changing the lifestyle habit and changing the child's diet to a healthier one, which can lower their risk of becoming obese and have health problems in the future (Childhood Obesity Facts." Par 7-8-9). Each and everyone surrounding the child's life has part of the responsibility to help children to be healthier and live better, so it is very important that communities have the awareness of how big and serious is the problem of childhood obesity so that all can participate to put an end to it (Costley …show more content…
Technology as wonderful as it sounds and all the technological devices that swept our worlds and children’s worlds and the excessive use of Ipads, tablets, video games, computers and televisions have limited the outside playing time. Children spend hours sitting playing on their electronic devices forgetting about the outside world all what they care about is staying where they are and continue to “play”. "Our results provide evidence that physical activity plays a substantial and independent part in the rate of gain in BMI during adolescence." Many scientific studies have shown the relation between lack of activity and childhood obesity and the level of physical activity can be one of the prime reasons of obesity from childhood to adolescent (Science Letter par