Factors Affecting Childhood Obesity

Overweight is identified as an individual who has any sort of excess body weight for a particular height from fat, muscle, bone, water, or a combination of these four factors. A person who is classified as obese or having obesity is to have excess body fat. Overweight and obesity are the result of “caloric imbalance” which is too few calories expended for the amount of calories absorbed. Childhood obesity has doubled more within children from age’s six to eleven at seventeen percent, along with adolescences who have quadrupled. However from 2003 to 2004, these rates haven’t fluctuated in the slightest and continues to remain at seventeen percent (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Even though children and parents are seen as responsible …show more content…
It is often struggling and difficult for children to be able to make nutritious food choices and whether or not they get enough physical activity when they are exposed to certain environments they interact with daily, such as their home. Other environments that might affect childhood obesity amongst children are being put in a child care center, school and how their nutrition program and physical program are (certain schools are more a vacant on these), or their surrounding community that is not safe for the child to be active or play that are overall influenced by the advertising of less nutritious and cheap foods, and the limited access to nutritious affordable …show more content…
Preventions include flourishing lifestyle habits, including nutritious eating and daily physical activity, can all lower the risk of becoming obese and any developing related diseases, the nutrient and physical activeness behaviors of children and adolescents are influenced by various regions of society, including their intermediate and distant families, surrounding communities, educational institutions, child care services, care providers, any and all faith-based associations, government facilities, mass media, and the food and beverage industries and entertainment industries, and for the educational system to play a key and critical role by identifying and establishing a safe and supportive environment with policies and practices that support lively behaviors for children and adolescents in the United States. Schools also there to provide many opportunities for all students to learn about the correct practice of nutritious eating and behaviors for our bodies. Parents are also encouraged to provide an anti-obesity environment such as quitting smoking, controlling birthweight of child during pregnancy and building up exercise