I chose to research and write about childhood obesity, as I think it is a completely avoidable disease. It saddens me to see the way people have been raised and influenced to eat in recent years. Unhealthy behavior is becoming trendy, with extreme food eating and restaurants emphasizing on what bizarre combinations they can come up with including bacon and other food items that should be avoided. I am fearful of having children one day, and having to explain to them why we do not eat fast-food in our family while their friends may eat it regularly. I know that it will be difficult, a lot of people do not respect or understand dietary rules and will have a negative influence on them. There are a lot of instances where I am criticized for my
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“Freudianism and behaviorism both entered the picture of childhood obesity in the middle decades of the twentieth century and contributed new elements to the increasingly multifactorial nature of the condition.” Freud, Watson and Skinner were not concerned with theories of overweight children themselves, however the followers of their approaches applied Freudian and behaviorist thoughts to the studies in hospitals and clinics. Hilde Bruch, who was a physician working at Babies Hospital in New York in the 1940s, began to apply psychological interpretations as to what made children fat. Her early theories were Freudian, involving the emotional symbolism and function of food with the relationship of mother-child connection. When she visited the homes of forty of her patients who were overweight, she found that this had to do with a consistent set of factors. Fathers were either non interactive or absent, and mothers often didn’t want the children, therefore they were trying to make up for their lack of love with food. These fat children were often shy and withdrawn. Attempting to place these children on a diet would be taking away the feeling of love that children gained from the food. (Dawes, 2014) We also tend to see mothers showing their love of their family and especially their children in the …show more content…
In order to conquer this problem, all areas of the disease need to be addressed. Childhood obesity can be conquered with just the right attention to diet, activity, support, and will-power. This is indeed much more difficult for some than it is for others, but by making everyone aware of the importance, attention to health can be spread to a wider range of children and their parents. A healthful lifestyle can be led by all, if they
“Freudianism and behaviorism both entered the picture of childhood obesity in the middle decades of the twentieth century and contributed new elements to the increasingly multifactorial nature of the condition.” Freud, Watson and Skinner were not concerned with theories of overweight children themselves, however the followers of their approaches applied Freudian and behaviorist thoughts to the studies in hospitals and clinics. Hilde Bruch, who was a physician working at Babies Hospital in New York in the 1940s, began to apply psychological interpretations as to what made children fat. Her early theories were Freudian, involving the emotional symbolism and function of food with the relationship of mother-child connection. When she visited the homes of forty of her patients who were overweight, she found that this had to do with a consistent set of factors. Fathers were either non interactive or absent, and mothers often didn’t want the children, therefore they were trying to make up for their lack of love with food. These fat children were often shy and withdrawn. Attempting to place these children on a diet would be taking away the feeling of love that children gained from the food. (Dawes, 2014) We also tend to see mothers showing their love of their family and especially their children in the …show more content…
In order to conquer this problem, all areas of the disease need to be addressed. Childhood obesity can be conquered with just the right attention to diet, activity, support, and will-power. This is indeed much more difficult for some than it is for others, but by making everyone aware of the importance, attention to health can be spread to a wider range of children and their parents. A healthful lifestyle can be led by all, if they