Preventing Childhood Obesity Essay

Evidence Based Practice NU525 Cheryl Hersperger, MS, RN, APHN-BC Abstract Obesity has become a public health epidemic. The number of pediatric and adolescent patients who are overweight or obese has more than doubled over the last two decades. Statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that in 2013, 42 million children worldwide were overweight or obese (WHO Factsheets, Jan. 2015). Obesity is defined as excess amounts of adipose tissue that may cause increased risk for…

our community is suffering from an epidemic of cardiorenal disease. Many believe this is due to increasing rates of obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and kidney disease within our population. It is acknowledged that an unhealthy diet consisting of excessive and unconscionable calorie intake, along with lack of physical activity, are both influential factors driving the obesity epidemic. However, there have been more recent studies to try to exam other factors that may affect this influx of…

12/04/2014 Prompt: Childhood Obesity; who are to Blame? “Childhood Obesity” Who is responsible for childhood obesity? For the past 30 years, childhood obesity has increased rapidly. Children obesity between the ages of 6-11 years old has increased by 7% in 1980 to over 17% in 2012. The difference between overweight and obese is that overweight is the percentage of fat, muscle, bone, water, or all of that in body weight for each particular height, while the definition of obesity is the highest…

Schools are probably the most critical place for obese children and teenagers to try to lose weight since they spend a quarter of their day at school. Indeed, Green, Riley, & Hargrove (2012) reviewed numerous studies that show that schools are the “primary remediation force” for obese students. The school's’ strategies are primarily to provide the right type of foods for students, such as a nutritious salad bar with a wide selection of colorful and enticing fruit and vegetables (Green, Riley, &…

Australian survey of 2007 identifies that boys age 14-16 years have more risk of the insufficient intake of zinc and children age 2-3 years they consume zinc more than the required amount. Largely increase the population than the previous national survey (Rangan, Samman, 2012). According to a study in the US found 1909 to early 1980 there was no reliable Zn food supply (Gibson, 2012). According to the Briefel, Bialostosky, Kennedy-Stephenson, McDowell, & Wright, US population has inadequate…

Cons of Obesity Did you know there is a big debate on whether being obese is a pro or con. All over the news you may hear that the United States obesity rate is growing largely. Obesity can be called an disease. A quarter of the U.S is obese or overweight. Obesity is very dangerous and can cause lots of harm to your body and this creates health risk. This some of the topics and ideas you will learn about in this essay. Lots of people in the U.S and all around the world are obese or overweight.…

Obesity in teens and children has grown over the years and has become a problem in today’s society. Approximately 12.7 million or 17 percent of children and adolescents are obese. Obesity is one of the most easiest medical conditions to recognize but the most hardest to treat. I feel as if this is a true fact, becuase it is easy for a lot of people to gain weight, but extremely hard to lose it again. A child or teenager is not considered obese until the percent is at least 10 percent higher than…

The problem I’d like to see solved is childhood obesity. It is becoming a raging epidemic in the US due to our horrible eating habits and lack of essential exercise. A child should be taught what a proper diet is and that sitting in front of the television with a bag of chips does an acceding amount of harm to the body. I believe there are many steps could be taken to stop childhood obesity. And, that the steps eve taken have made a small impact on the community I live in. Since age 8 I’ve been…

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…

said, "children who are considered overweight will have a 70% chance of becoming overweight as an adult"(thehealthyeatingguide). How scary does that sound? You and your child have to worry about obesity at the time in their lives where they are supposed to eat unhealthily and run around playing. Obesity has grown into a taboo topic nowadays, people love it, people hate it, but is it healthy? What is healthy? Why do some identify themselves based on their fat or lack of? What does it mean to…