Childhood Obesity Effect

Childhood Obesity Obesity and overweight are the result of caloric imbalance (too few calories expended for the amount of calories consumed) and are affected by various genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors. The issue of obesity and overweight among the children is increasing everyday throughout the world. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention survey, in United States, childhood obesity has increased, more than doubled among children in the past thirty years. The percentage of children ages 6-11 years who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2012. Obesity has physical and mental effects on a person’s personality, it makes them depress and unconfident about themselves because of their physical …show more content…
Not only obesity in genes of a particular children, effect those children, but those children will also pass the genes to the next generation to come, and this passing of genes will carry on from one generation to another, increasing the obesity rate in childhood. The increase of the obesity rate in childhood will have a very destructive effect on our society since this chain of genes will keep increasing generation by generation, causing a higher percentage of obesity in the society. The day will not be too far off when the obesity rate will be 100%, unless or until we break the chain by having balanced diet and daily …show more content…
Children have little or no ability to shape their diet, they have little control over how they get around and what they are given to eat. They have similar eating habits and physical activities as their parents, who are mostly busy in their daily routine of full-time work (sometimes overtime to make ends meet) and raising their kids. This leaves the parents with either very little, or most likely, no time at all to think about having a balanced and healthy diet for themselves and their kids. Because of the shortage of time, parents mostly don’t have time to cook or provide healthy meals to their kids, instead their kids get used to eating junk food, using pre-packaged goods, and drinking sodas daily from the vending machines. All of these consumptions are not healthy at all, drinking soda causes different diseases; for example, liver damage, tooth decay, kidney stones and diabetes. Junk food not only causes obesity, but it is also a major cause of several diseases like, cancer, high cholesterol and high blood