Obesity in Children After reading the material for this week, the student began to research obesity in middle childhood. The student discovered the causes of middle childhood obesity, the effect of obesity on a child’s health, psychosocial, and cognitive development, and ways to counteract obesity in middle childhood. The student has provided information on obesity solutions in her area, a national program to help stop childhood obesity, and has suggested other ways to help stop childhood obesity
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uk/news/2015/01January/Pages/Child-obesity-rates-are-stabilising.aspx Child obesity rates are 'stabilising' Friday January 30 2015 | Obese children tend to grow up to be obese adults | 1 | "The rise in childhood obesity … may be beginning to level off," BBC News reports. Researchers examined trends in child and adolescent rates of overweight and obesity using electronic GP records from 1994 to 2013. The data shows there was a significant increase in child and adolescent overweight and obesity rates every
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Childhood Obesity and Its Effects English 122-English Composition II Childhood obesity has become a huge problem in our country and continues to grow. Why has this become such a big issued and what can be done to correct it? We feel that one of the main reasons for childhood obesity today is the lack of time parents have at home with their families. In today’s times it is not unusual for both parents to be working
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Childhood Obesity: A Growing Problem With all the junk food that kids have available today, it is really easy for our children to become overweight. Being obese while at such a young age can cause health problems now and when they become older and older. Obesity is caused by excessive body adipose tissue. There are many children in the United States that are at risk or already are overweight. Childhood obesity is a growing problem in the U.S. because being overweight is a major issue
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Childhood Obesity Tyffny Riordan ENG 122 Jason Romero 18 Aug 12 Childhood Obesity Children Obesity is a sensitive subject that many have delved into trying to find its root cause. It seems like we have more and more children that are obese compared to previous years. There are several opinions out there as to why children are obese. “Obesity now affects 17 percent of all children and adolescents in the United States - triple the rate from just one generation ago” (Centers for Disease Control
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Obesity: What can we do? Tracy Garrett Sep. 29, 2014 Obesity: What can we do? By: Tracy Garrett Professor Pearson ENG 122 September 29, 2014 Obesity: What can we do? Thesis Obesity is a medical condition where our body forms excess fat to the point that it is harmful to our bodies, young and old. Doctors have said that obesity is a terrible disease, like diabetes and high blood pressure. In this case
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December 19, 2015 Obesity by definition is an excess in body fat, while overweight is an excess in body weight from bones, muscles, fat and water. A tool called Body Mass Index (BMI) is used to calculate obesity and overweight in adults and children. Adult ages 20 and above who have a BMI of 18.5-24 is considered normal, while a BMI of 25-29.9 is overweight, BMI of 30 is obesity, and a BMI of over 40 is morbid obesity (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease) A child is obese/overweight
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Child Obesity –Finding Solutions Specific Purpose: To provide information on how we can reduce childhood obesity. 1. Introduction Attention material: How many of you have seen chubby babies, and you thought “Oh they are so cute” and you wanted to pinch their cheeks? And we thought that their baby fat would disappear as they grow older. But unfortunately many of them end up carrying that fat until their adulthood. Nowadays, it has been proven that childhood obesity can be very harmful for our children
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Childhood Obesity: It’s a Family Issue Megan Ehrhart Statistical Concept for Research MAT 540 Professor Richard Smatt March 26, 2012 Introduction Parents are the first teachers in a child’s life. This runs true for teaching kids healthy eating habits as well. When parents themselves model good healthy eating habits along with teaching their children healthy habits the children grow up to be healthy adults. When parents are obese and engage their children in this unhealthy life
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Childhood obesity has grown into an epidemic within the last 30 years. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2011), “7% of children were considered obese in the U.S. in 1980, and by 2008, it was nearly 20%. Additionally, the incidence of obesity among adolescent children, aged 12-19 years, grew from 5% to 18% over the same time period” (CDC, 2011). Coincidentally, over the past 30 years, more parents are working, not only every day, but longer hours, and in many cases both
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