During early childhood, children grow rather quickly. Children will tend to become taller, and perhaps slim a bit. Their gross motor skills will also improve tremendously. However, there seems to be a growing trend in the rise of obesity. It does sound rather odd for a preschooler to be obese, especially at a time when they are becoming taller, and are improving in gross motor skills. During early childhood, children improve their systems of action, and are able to climb, jump, run, and hop
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Child-hood Obesity Twanna Jones Kaplan University Unit 4 Project: Reflecting on Sources Complete all three parts of the worksheet below. Be sure to cite all sources in APA format, including using in-text citations and reference page citations in the spaces provided. The writing should be in Standard English and complete sentences. The sources noted in this worksheet should be related to your "big idea," which is the basis of your final project in this course. Save this document to your
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confronts the topic of adolescent obesity and its correlation to the daily consumption of fast-foods. The author reveals that he too, at one point, fell victim to the “golden arches”. The author’s personal narrative revealed that after eating fast-food twice a day he weighed two-hundred and twelve pounds standing at only five foot ten. I sympathize with the author about the ever increasing numbers of childhood obesity, the money in which is donated to childhood obesity research, and the misconception
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because childhood obesity is becoming an epidemic. A. Introduction 1. Are you super sizing your children? So many parents are feeding their children too much. Our children need to have examples set for them on how to eat healthy. Children also need to be taught how to incorporate more physical activities in their daily routines. Children will have major health risks if their eating habits are not changed. Parent should watch what their children eat because childhood obesity is
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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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junk food is one way that affects obese children. Throughout this paper I will discuss the long and short term impacts of obesity on children’s growth and development, describe a specific child who is affected by obesity, and three ways to combat obesity that involves collaboration among schools, families, and communities. There are short and long term impacts of childhood obesity. One short term impact is having a low self-esteem. Obese children are likely to be bullied or teased by peers at home
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The Healthy People 2020 overarching goal is the perfect fit to help solve this issue. According to the CDC, the long term health effects of childhood obesity are; heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, several types of cancer, and osteoarthritis (CDC, 2015). How did we get to this point? Can we blame all of these issues on fast food? Too much Playstation or X-Box? While I believe that poor diet
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our children become obese but also doing nothing about it. The effects of childhood obesity are so far reaching that we are yet to know all of what potentially may happen to our progeny in the successive generations to come. Despite encouragements of healthy habits, emotional, physical, and psychological factors influence the rise of childhood obesity to nearly epidemic proportions in the United States. Overweight and obesity in children is epidemic in North America and internationally. “Approximately
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recipients but after reading the statistics in this article I do believe it is a waste of taxpayers’ money to do the drug tests. We would be paying more in testing than we would be saving. Dowell, D., & Farley, T. (2014, September). Preventing Childhood Obesity. American Journal of Public Health, 104(9),
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televisions and sometimes even motorized scooters in order for them to get around so they don’t have to walk. This causes thousands of Americans per day to go bankrupt, but parents just can’t say not to their kids! The parental aspect of childhood obesity also causes great disturbances at school. Teachers are having to force kids into exercising during gym classes and recess. If these children don’t put in the effort, a letter gets sent home and the parents complain to the school board and the
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