“Slowly but surely, we’re beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue” (Obama). This emphasizes that child obesity in America has become a huge problem not only to a few, but to many children across the country. With this problem in society, the first lady decided to help stop this issue with the help of parents and sponsors around the United States. Child obesity is a case that affects children and adolescents, which occurs when a child is above normal weight for its age and height. The advertisements of high-calorie foods, lack of activity due to school schedules and technology, and genetic backgrounds, caused child obesity to increase tremendously,
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According to Amir Khan, Everyday Health staff writer, “86% of nonrestraunt food and beverage product ads seen on TV by children in 2009 promoted products high in saturated fat, sugar or sodium” (Khan). This demonstrates that the majority of products advertised for kids are very unhealthy, but buys their attention. The more kids are brought to the appealing products, the more they are getting influenced in eating it, which causes unhealthy substances in their system leading into gaining excessive weight in the long run. Having a household with children, there tends to be more junk food, because children influence their parents to buy the high-calorie and most addicting food they see while watching TV (Khan). This shows that children are viewed with food repeatedly while watching television, which drives them in wanting to eat some. With seeing these products more and more, children beg parents to buy them what they see, gaining many unhealthy snacks and beverages in the house for the children to consume. This in the end results with children eating more junk foods daily, increasing the risks of getting obese. Also, “National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), looked at the potential impact of a ban on …show more content…
All of this evidence shows that with the placement of foods in the children’s eyes, the demand of eating the unhealthy snacks increases and the activity time decreases, causing the risk of obesity to increase within the child. Children and adolescents never truly know what is getting consumed as they eat those delicious snacks. With the environmental influence and the consumption of the food, their intake increases causing their weight to gain, in the end leaving them
According to Amir Khan, Everyday Health staff writer, “86% of nonrestraunt food and beverage product ads seen on TV by children in 2009 promoted products high in saturated fat, sugar or sodium” (Khan). This demonstrates that the majority of products advertised for kids are very unhealthy, but buys their attention. The more kids are brought to the appealing products, the more they are getting influenced in eating it, which causes unhealthy substances in their system leading into gaining excessive weight in the long run. Having a household with children, there tends to be more junk food, because children influence their parents to buy the high-calorie and most addicting food they see while watching TV (Khan). This shows that children are viewed with food repeatedly while watching television, which drives them in wanting to eat some. With seeing these products more and more, children beg parents to buy them what they see, gaining many unhealthy snacks and beverages in the house for the children to consume. This in the end results with children eating more junk foods daily, increasing the risks of getting obese. Also, “National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), looked at the potential impact of a ban on …show more content…
All of this evidence shows that with the placement of foods in the children’s eyes, the demand of eating the unhealthy snacks increases and the activity time decreases, causing the risk of obesity to increase within the child. Children and adolescents never truly know what is getting consumed as they eat those delicious snacks. With the environmental influence and the consumption of the food, their intake increases causing their weight to gain, in the end leaving them