Abstract The problem of childhood obesity in the United States has grown significantly in recent years. Between 16 and 33 percent of children and adolescents are obese. Obesity is among the easiest medical conditions to recognize, but most difficult to treat. Unhealthy weight gain due to poor diet and lack of exercise is responsible for over 300,000 deaths each year. (cite) In my research paper, I first will examine the differences between overweight and obesity. Next, I will discuss the contributing
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overeating. The scale of which can be considered unprecedented, very much like the black death. Many organization has called obesity an “epidemic” because a staggering one-third of American adult are obese. In a published study by RAND Health, obesity can be considered worse than smoking or poverty due to the magnitude of health problem it causes. People with obesity is linked to more chronic disease such
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Childhood Obesity What is childhood obesity? Childhood obesity is where excessive body fat affects a child health or wellbeing negatively. When a parent constantly gives their child sugar, and more sugar, and they eat food at night and just go straight to sleep, the food that they just ate digest slowly and that’s where the gaining of the weight starts. Don’t let kids eat so much at night, and in the daytime to, because it’s not doing anything but putting a health risk on the child. What are
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perspective the obesity problem of children in Georgia. While this particular advertisement was a billboard, that feature an overweight young girl with the words “Warning its hard to be a little girl if you are not”. Seeming a bit harsh and insensitive to many feelings of parents and children who have seen that advertisement, it was created to raise awareness of childhood obesity. By shocking those who see the advertisement into at least noticing that there is a problem with obesity in the state of
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High Fructose Corn Syrup: The New Scapegoat to Obesity Recently, the majority of the United States population has been increasingly concerned with the affect of the controversial issue surrounding high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in their diet. Today, about 55 percent of Americans list the infamous sweetener among their food-safety worries, right behind mad cow disease and mercury in seafood, according to the consumer research firm NPD Group (Parker-Pope, 2010). It has caused a major stir in
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and Terrence D. Hill. "An Examination of Processes Linking Perceived Neighborhood Disorder and Obesity." Social Science & Medicine 67.1 (2008): 38-46. Web. In the journal article, An Examination of Processes Linking Perceived Neighborhood disorder and obesity, Burdette, Amy M. , and Terrence Hill used a data collected from a sample of Texas to figure it out why neighborhood disorder effect on obesity, and they also analysis the psychological, physiological, and behavior mechanism. They stated
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each practice. What is wrong? She does some research and is quickly taken by surprise. A diet comprised of an increased intake of sugars, sodium, and additives has numerous repercussions. “However, the potential negative psychosocial aspects of obesity, such as poor body image (BI), social isolation, and stigmatization, are also relevant in the lives of youth” (Martin, 2011, p.245). Parents and other youth leaders are strongly encouraged to be the defense against such harsh ramifications. It is
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eight hours a day on screen play, while only 3 hours a week were sacrificed to active play. Although the report states that the danger of letting children play outside is no more than it was a generation ago, approximately 56% of Canadian parents
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Non-communicable diseases are said to be diseases of lifestyle, and obesity, a disease in which someone’s BMI is 30 or over is now a very common, yet preventable, disease with many impacts. 67% of people in the UK have weight issues, with 1 in 4 being obese and an extra 40% being overweight; it has even been suggested that it has ‘pandemic proportions’ due to its global reach – in 2008, 10% of the world was said to be obese. The WHO claim obesities recent rise has been due to two factors: ‘an increased intake
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for their daughter’s obesity. One of the girls said that a “McMuffin for breakfast and a Big Mac meal for dinner was her regular diet.” (Wald, 2003) While the other one would eat Happy Meals three to four times a week. When this case went in front of the court, Judge Robert W. Sweet stated this “opinion is guided by the principle that legal consequences should not attach to the consumption of hamburgers and other fast food fare unless consumers are unaware of the dangers of eating such food.”
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