Childhood Obesity Epidemic Analysis

Obesity in childhood has become a global epidemic in developed and developing countries, and is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st Century (Chan, Deave, & Greenhalgh, 2010; Fleming & Parker, 2015). One-quarter of all Australian children between the ages of five and seven in 2007-2008 were overweight or obese (Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABOS], 2015). Obesity in childhood is known to have a significant impact on both physical and psychological health (Wieting, 2008)

percent of children in the nation to become obese or overweight. If the obesity epidemic is not taken seriously the nation will have to pay the price. Not only adults but future generations are at a higher risk of developing severe heart conditions earlier than past generations. If improvements are not made, our children will die younger than us. II. As of 2014, there are twenty two states with an over thirty percent obesity rate. With these high rates, more than one third of the American adult population

diet, nutrition, and obesity epidemic have been covered by experts in the United States. Different experts advocate various, and sometimes conflicting strategies for maintaining a healthy weight. One approach to this obesity epidemic is that being overweight is caused by the “obesity genes”. Yet some disagree on this approach and insist that parental influence play a bigger role in obesity. Obesity is a major global health condition that involves excessive body fat. Obesity is the main cause of some

One of the main epidemics effecting our society is obesity. In a more focused aspect, childhood and adolescent obesity have become an increasing problem. According to the CDC “Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years.” (CDC). As a result many health scientists have tried to focus on ways to combat this growing epidemic. This particular article by David Thivel, Laurie Isacco and Pascale Duché focused on the effect of High Intensity Exercise

Obesity in children and adolescent is defined as a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile of the Center for Disease and Control (CDC) sex- specific growth chart (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal 2014). In this writer’s community of St. Lucie County, childhood obesity rate is 17.8% compare to 14% of the state of Florida (City Data.com, 2013). It is apparent that obesity in children is very prevalent in this writer’s community. As a future family nurse practitioner, who intends to work

we want to dramatically decrease childhood obesity policies and behaviors need to change as well. Fast food is a big problem that comes to mind. Cara B Ebbeling, PhD from the article, “Childhood obesity: public-health crisis, common sense cure states”, “The rise in consumption of fast food, in developed and developing nations, might have particular relevance to the childhood obesity epidemic”. Ebbeling also states, “Although there are no data on fast food and obesity in children, adolescent girls who

Per. 5 10/5/17 Essay of attacking obesity and no lunch According to the article, “Attacking the obesity epidemic by first figuring out its cause” by Jane E. Brody, corporations in the food industry are the one causing the problem of obesity. First off salty, fatty, and sugary foods have been introduced to our society since the 70’s. As a matter of fact, “in the 40’s and 50’s” the majority

Childhood obesity is the most common pediatric nutritional disorder in the United States (Balog, 2015). Most people believe that the solution to stopping childhood obesity relies entirely on education. Sadly, this is not true. While education is one of the main factors for solving this epidemic, there are many other factors that need to be resolved as well. One cannot rely on the simplistic idea that, once educated, Americans would make the healthiest choices. This is because Americans choose, buy

Critical Argument Analysis Destanie Garcia ENG/215CA October 10, 2011 Patricia Moody Critical Argument Analysis Childhood obesity is an ongoing epidemic in today’s society. This essay will focus on three different professional articles, which are related to childhood obesity. The three articles in this essay are “Fighting Childhood Obesity,” “Recognizing and Preventing Childhood Obesity,” and “Understanding and Acting on the Growing Childhood and Adolescent Weight Crisis: A Role for Social

Research Process to Problems in Health Care Childhood Obesity HCS/465 August 2, 2012 Donald Steacy Introduction The purpose of the paper is to show how to develop and understand methodology of the research process when pertaining to health care. The process consists of retrieving a peer-reviewed article and applying the research methodology to the article selected. The article selected for the research methodology was Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis written by Sameera