com/symptomsconditionsdetail.aspx?cid=8080eb16-5b18-4ff6-be93-73763c9b3b5 American Physical Therapy Association. (2016). New recommendations for pt treatment of childhood obesity. Retrieved on February 12, 217 from www.apta.org/PTinMotion/News/2016/6/13/PTJChildhoodObesity/ American Physical Therapy Association. (2016). Physical Therapist’s guide to obesity. Retrieved on February 12, 2017, from: www.moveforwardpt.com/symptomsconditionsdeatil.aspx?cid=df77f3aa-573b-4d1e-893b-18c88e6cedce Atun-Eidy,
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impoverished areas of the country. The obesity rates in many similar countries have not grown nearly as rapidly as that of the United States. The rate of obesity in impoverished American children may be rapidly increasing due to the influence of their caretakers, low income, poor access to healthcare, lack of physical activity, deprived living conditions, and a lack of access to resources due to their location. Obesity is more prevalent in minority communities, but obesity rates and race do not actually
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Childhood Obesity Even though America is an advance developed country, we are facing a major epidemic in obesity with children. American has one of the highest percent of children obesity in the world. “Obese”, from the Latin word “obesus”, means “grown fat by eating”. The term’s origin clearly and correctly suggest that overeating is a major cause of the obesity epidemic.” Sharron Dalton, 45). Obesity may cause several major health problems and could have an effect on youth’s daily activities
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Literature Review in Research: An Annotated Bibliography An Annotated Bibliography (Childhood Obesity) Li, J., & Hooker, N. (2010). Childhood obesity and schools: evidence from the National Survey of Children's Health. Journal Of School Health, 80(2), 96-103. doi:10.1111/j.1746-1561.2009.00471.x Retrieved July 29, 2012 from EBSCOhost. This is a rather good article that explains why the schools that have lunch programs bring a healthier choice of food for children. It describes that living
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Bachtel text “Television: Destroying Childhood”, watching television does not allow children the exercise that they need to keep their bodies in shape and can lead to health problems (Bachtel, 2010). But also according to two visual sources, watching too much seems to be the main problem with childhood obesity because children eat bad foods as they watch television (Giany, 2010), (Perez, 2006). But if parents monitor more of their kids’ television time, maybe obesity would not be such a huge problem
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started it and why? Goal/purpose, history On February 9, 2010 Michelle Obama started the program Let’s Move Critique to help children with obesity. She started this program because she notices that childhood obesity rates have tripled and one in three children in America is overweight or obese. This program is dedicated to solving the challenges of childhood obesity within a generation so children today can grow up healthier and pursue their dreams. The many ways of putting children on the path to
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society with the topic of the obesity epidemic and advertising’s role in it. Taylor’s first reference is from an article written in The Australian which states, “Restricting television advertisements for junk food aimed at children would be one of the most cost-effective public health measures governments could make, yielding huge savings from preventing fat kids turning into sickly adults.” Another article that supports this claim is referenced is in the Journal of Obesity by authors who are on the
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Child obesity is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child's health or wellbeing. The cause of childhood obesity are spread out, and certain factors to this epidemic include lack of physical activity and dietary patterns. Changing eating and physical activity in children with the use of nutritional guides, work out DVDs and proactive parents can assist in decreasing child obesity (Ryder, 2011). Child Obesity is determined through BMI, body mass index. Children over age 2
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The targeted population that will be explored in this paper is childhood obesity in the United States focusing on children aged between two through17. The surgeon general has labeled child obesity in America as an epidemic supported by statistics that in the last 30 years childhood obesity has tripled. The two primary factors identified by physicians and experts in creating childhood obesity, are first that children are not receiving enough exercise daily and not eating the right
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Public Health Issue: Childhood Obesity Anna Walker, the Healthcare Commission Chief Executive explained that "Childhood obesity is a serious health problem that can follow people much later into life. It is a causal factor in a number of chronic diseases and conditions including high blood pressure, heart disease and type 2 diabetes” (Audit Commission 2006). The World Health Organisation, describes obesity as having “reached global epidemic proportions, with more than 1.6 billion adults overweight
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