Childhood obesity affect 17% of all children in United States according to neayc.org. In the textbook, it describes this as an overweight epidemic. Cheap easily accessible unhealthy food is widely available. Growing technology leaves children spending more time in front of a screen and less time playing and exercising outside. Many people believe bullying children would help them lose weight. Bullying children for their weight leads to depression, low self-esteem, and body image disturbances (Easter, L.S., & Krogh, S.L. 2012). So much emphasis are put on BMI or parental for children that many have lost focused on the nutritional aspect. In all the classrooms I have substituted in, I have only seen one obese child. She had a medical condition
