Food, water, and shelter are the basic necessities needed for survival. However, when an individual consumes an excessive amount of food, over a long period of time they begin to gain weight. This same principle applies to children and adolescents, because children bodies are still developing and growing, an excessive amount of weight too soon, or too early on a child, can be detrimental to their health. A child can develop asthma, diabetes, high cholesterol, or poor bone density to the excessive amount of fat too early on their bones. Statics show that 25 million American children are overweight. This is a shocking static because children do not buy their own food. A child 's unhealthy eating habits are a combination of the parents, the child
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In some cultures, the people do not eat particular meats, starches, or grains. Parents are a key factor in what children eat. In the video, the news reporter says that if you have it, in front of you, you will eat it. Children have little control over what they eat, they only eat what their parents provide them. So if a child lives in a home, where they only have fruits, and vegetables to eat then that is what the child will eat because it is in front of them, however, if a child has saturated fats, sugars, sweets, and foods high in sodium, in front of them, that is what they will continue to eat. As parents, it is their job, and responsibility to care for their child, and continually feeding your child unhealthy foods, will harm them later in life. You do not see many children having heart attacks, however, with continues consumption of unhealthy foods, cholesterol can begin depositing in the arteries coming towards the heart, which can result in a heart attack later in life. The realization that children are dying sooner, then their parents proves, that unhealthy eating is effecting children more and more. The realization is that children learn through experience, and action, more than likely if a child is raised eating unhealthy, and obese, then they will become an unhealthy, obese
In some cultures, the people do not eat particular meats, starches, or grains. Parents are a key factor in what children eat. In the video, the news reporter says that if you have it, in front of you, you will eat it. Children have little control over what they eat, they only eat what their parents provide them. So if a child lives in a home, where they only have fruits, and vegetables to eat then that is what the child will eat because it is in front of them, however, if a child has saturated fats, sugars, sweets, and foods high in sodium, in front of them, that is what they will continue to eat. As parents, it is their job, and responsibility to care for their child, and continually feeding your child unhealthy foods, will harm them later in life. You do not see many children having heart attacks, however, with continues consumption of unhealthy foods, cholesterol can begin depositing in the arteries coming towards the heart, which can result in a heart attack later in life. The realization that children are dying sooner, then their parents proves, that unhealthy eating is effecting children more and more. The realization is that children learn through experience, and action, more than likely if a child is raised eating unhealthy, and obese, then they will become an unhealthy, obese