Childhood obesity

depressing facet of this information is that even our own children are getting fatter. This is due to a number of causes that are similar to the causes of obesity in adults, which are poor diet, lack of physical activity, a sedentary lifestyle due to the rise of technology, as well as parents that do not have control of their children. Childhood obesity is a frightening affliction that is a direct result of many contributing factors that are detrimental to the health and future of many…

School nurses can play an integral role in preventive health, including the prevention of obesity in children. The objective of this study is to determine if school nurses can successfully use motivational interviewing in counseling sessions with overweight students to decrease childhood obesity. For the purpose of the qualitative study, nurses were trained in motivational interviewing and children were selected based on age and their body mass index (BMI). By using the motivational interview,…

Recently, Australians are in the obesity epidemic. Eating junk foods and fatty snacks in high fats, salt and sugar and sugar-sweetened beverages can lead to high blood pressure and obesity. Moreover, they put people at risk of diseases, such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. Because of that many Australians want to lose weight, eat better and move more. Furthermore, Australians want our children to grow into healthy adults. Therefore, we need policies that will support people to…

Childhood obesity is a medical condition in which a child is overweight to be so young. Childhood obesity has many symptoms such as: shortness of breath , eating rather large amounts of food , a oversized belly and poor lifestyle. But there are treatments for this condition such as : physical exercise , diets , and weight loss. Childhood obesity can lead to many other diseases such as : diabetes , hypertension , and even a few forms of cancer. There are numerous causes and trends that can cause…

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…

Sunderman, Rick 7/1/2015 Week 7 Assignment 1 1. A) The first website is the National League of Cities (NLC), the search for Obesity brings up several news articles and a policy action place called “Financing Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Federal Funding Sources and Other Strategies.” (Financing Childhood) Additional informational booklets and PowerPoints are also available; however the single page fact sheet does not appear. If you do dig further and visit the NLC’s Let’s Move! Page,…

Childhood obesity become epidemic, 30 years ago children were healthy than now. Before kids used to play more after school. Children used to play before dinner for hours, and in gym class. The kids from this generation experience different lifestyle. Now they don’t walk to school they take cars or buses. Also the gym and afterschool been cut. Kids instead of playing after school they just stay home watching tv or playing on the internet. Before kids used to just eat one snack during the day, now…

contradicting advertisements right next to each other on this wall, it’s easy to tell that childhood obesity is not taken seriously enough. Reasons to back this up are how they often make advertisements for unhealthy food too appealing to children, they make unhealthy foods look/sound too beneficial for the public, and there are many more advertisements for unhealthy foods than there are for childhood obesity awareness. Advertisement #1 is for Mcdonald’s fast food, it has a woman on it smiling…

Childhood obesity has been considered as an epidemic disease according to the CDC and there are numerous factors that contribute to the increase in rates. Some studies claimed that the prevalence of childhood obesity is common among children who belong in the low socioeconomic household. According to Ogden and colleagues, between the years 2011-2012, there were 16.9% of the youth who were included in the assessment were obese in the United States, and the rate has been consistent since 2009-2010…

Child Obesity Needs to Take a Hike “The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2012” (Childhood Obesity Facts). Obesity is often defined as excess body weight as measured by BMI, because body fat is very difficult to measure. “High-calorie, good-tasting, and inexpensive foods have become widely available and are heavily advertised”(Office of the Surgeon General).The majority of snack ads that preschoolers,…