A growing problem in America is childhood obesity which literally gets over looked every day. Children who are obese are more likely to have cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and other serious health risk when they get older. Childhood obesity has increased highly over the generations. In my opinion there are three causes for this problem which include, not enough physical activity at home or in schools, food habits, and genetic. Before we can talk about the causes of childhood obesity we must know what obesity is. Obesity is when you have too much body fat for your height and weight. Too much body fat especially around your heart can cause life threatening effects if not reduce. Doctors check their patients to see if they are normal,
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Schools don’t promote physical activity like they use too. Children don’t have recess like they did when I was younger. One of my little cousins told me that at recess her and her friends don’t even play at recess, they just talk to each other until it’s time to go back to class. What happen to the time when recess was a child’s favorite thing to do at school? When I was younger we use to love going outside playing games, running around, and getting fresh air. I use to love playing on the slide and swings. However, now a days you don’t see that much. Most kids are on their phone taking pictures, or playing games on their cell …show more content…
Now you have a choice if you want to take the class or not, and with some students PE is the only physical activity that the child gets if they don’t play sports which is why a lot of them are overweight. Being physical active increases energy, and strength. It can add time to your life making it worthwhile. Eating right and being active goes great together, there’s an old saying that states if you don’t use it you will lose it. However, our children don’t see that they rather play video games, or watch TV all day instead of getting up being energetic. When they get older they will wondered why they wasn’t active when they had a chance
Schools don’t promote physical activity like they use too. Children don’t have recess like they did when I was younger. One of my little cousins told me that at recess her and her friends don’t even play at recess, they just talk to each other until it’s time to go back to class. What happen to the time when recess was a child’s favorite thing to do at school? When I was younger we use to love going outside playing games, running around, and getting fresh air. I use to love playing on the slide and swings. However, now a days you don’t see that much. Most kids are on their phone taking pictures, or playing games on their cell …show more content…
Now you have a choice if you want to take the class or not, and with some students PE is the only physical activity that the child gets if they don’t play sports which is why a lot of them are overweight. Being physical active increases energy, and strength. It can add time to your life making it worthwhile. Eating right and being active goes great together, there’s an old saying that states if you don’t use it you will lose it. However, our children don’t see that they rather play video games, or watch TV all day instead of getting up being energetic. When they get older they will wondered why they wasn’t active when they had a chance